--- title: Alice watched the White Rabbit as he fumbled over the list, feeling… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Alice watched the White Rabbit as he fumbled over the list, feeling very curious to see what the next witness would be like, “—for they haven’t got much evidence _yet_,” she said to herself. Who acts: Alice, Rabbit, King. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XI. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/12/112/) [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 XI. Who Stole the Tarts?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/12/) / 112 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 112 Alice watched the White Rabbit as he fumbled over the list, feeling very curious to see what the next witness would be like, “—for they haven’t got much evidence \_yet\_,” she said to herself. **Who acts:** Alice, Rabbit, King · **What happens:** watch, fumble, feel, see, not get, say · **To what, where:** White Rabbit, list, much evidence, Alice · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, Rabbit, King), 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:pg11:12:112 # text = Alice watched the White Rabbit as he fumbled over the list, feeling very curious to see what the next witness would be like, “—for they haven’t got much evidence _yet_,” she said to herself. 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 watched watch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 White white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 fumbled fumble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 9 over over ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 14 very very ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 curious curious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 18 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 17 obj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 witness witness NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 24 like like INTJ UH _ 22 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 “ " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 — - PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 for for SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 31 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 ccomp _ _ 33 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 yet yet ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ” " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 40 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | past | Alice | the White Rabbit | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme | | 2 | **fumble** | past | Rabbit | | | the list | | | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over list=Location | | 3 | **feel** | gerund | Rabbit *not said here* | | | | | curious *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | Rabbit *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | King | much evidence | | | yet | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer evidence=Stimulus | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Alice | | Alice | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | 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 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/12/111/) - next →: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/12/113/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/12/)