--- title: Alice began in a loud, indignant voice, but she stopped hastily, for… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Alice began in a loud, indignant voice, but she stopped hastily, for the White Rabbit cried out, “Silence in the court!” and the King put on his spectacles and looked anxiously round, to make out who was talking. Who acts: Alice, White Rabbit, King. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» b --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/12/16/) [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/) / 16 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 16 Alice began in a loud, indignant voice, but she stopped hastily, for the White Rabbit cried out, “Silence in the court!” and the King put on his spectacles and looked anxiously round, to make out who was talking. **Who acts:** Alice, White Rabbit, King · **What happens:** begin, stop, cry out, put, look, make out · **To what, where:** loud indignant voice, Silence, spectacles 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, White 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:pg11:12:16 # text = Alice began in a loud, indignant voice, but she stopped hastily, for the White Rabbit cried out, “Silence in the court!” and the King put on his spectacles and looked anxiously round, to make out who was talking. 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 indignant indignant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 13 hastily hastily ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 for for SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 White white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 20 out out ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 “ " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ! ! PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ” " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 spectacles spectacle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 38 anxiously anxiously ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 round round ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 37 parataxis _ _ 43 out out ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ _ 44 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 46 nsubj _ _ 45 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | Alice | | | a loud indignant voice | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **stop** | past | Alice | | | | | hastily *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | the White Rabbit | Silence in the court | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **put** | past | the King | | | Rabbit's spectacles | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on spectacle=Destination | | 5 | **look** | past | the White Rabbit *not said here* | | | | | anxiously, round *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **make out** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **talk** | past · progressive | | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/12/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/12/17/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XI. 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