--- title: Her listeners were perfectly quiet till she got to the part about he… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Her listeners were perfectly quiet till she got to the part about her repeating “_You are old, Father William_,” to the Caterpillar, and the words all coming different, and then the Mock Turtle drew a long breath, and said “That’s very curious.” Who acts: listeners, Alice, You, words. A sentence of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/92/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/) / [Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/) / 92 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 92 Her listeners were perfectly quiet till she got to the part about her repeating “\_You are old, Father William\_,” to the Caterpillar, and the words all coming different, and then the Mock Turtle drew a long breath, and said “That’s very curious.” **Who acts:** listeners, Alice, You, words, Mock Turtle, That · **What happens:** be, get, repeat, come, draw, say · **To what, where:** long breath · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (listeners, Alice, You, words), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11:11:92 # text = Her listeners were perfectly quiet till she got to the part about her repeating “_You are old, Father William_,” to the Caterpillar, and the words all coming different, and then the Mock Turtle drew a long breath, and said “That’s very curious.” 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 listeners listener NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 perfectly perfectly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 till till SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 about about ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod _ _ 14 repeating repeat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 advcl _ _ 15 “ " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 Father Father PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 vocative _ _ 22 William William PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 23 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ” " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Caterpillar Caterpillar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 33 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 34 nsubj _ _ 34 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 35 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 38 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 42 advmod _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 Mock Mock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 Turtle Turtle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 conj _ _ 49 “ " PUNCT `` _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 53 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 cop _ _ 52 very very ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 53 curious curious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ” " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Alice's listeners | | | | | perfectly, quiet *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **get** | past | Alice | | | | | to the part about person *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to part=Result | | 3 | **repeat** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | You | | | | | to the Caterpillar; Father *vocative*; old *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **come** | gerund | the words | | | | | different *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **draw** | past | the Mock Turtle | a long breath | | | then | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Mock Turtle *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present | That | | | | | curious *property* | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Project Gutenberg book 11 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/91/) - next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/93/) - ↑ back to [Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/)