--- title: This did not seem to encourage the witness at all: he kept shifting… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: This did not seem to encourage the witness at all: he kept shifting from one foot to the other, looking uneasily at the Queen, and in his confusion he bit a large piece out of his teacup instead of the bread-and-butter. Who acts: This, Hatter. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/12/47/) [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/) / 47 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 47 This did not seem to encourage the witness at all: he kept shifting from one foot to the other, looking uneasily at the Queen, and in his confusion he bit a large piece out of his teacup instead of the bread-and-butter. **Who acts:** This, Hatter · **What happens:** not seem, encourage, keep, shift, look, bite · **To what, where:** witness, all, one foot, large piece, confusion 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 (This, Hatter), 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:pg11:12:47 # text = This did not seem to encourage the witness at all: he kept shifting from one foot to the other, looking uneasily at the Queen, and in his confusion he bit a large piece out of his teacup instead of the bread-and-butter. 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 seem seem VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 encourage encourage VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 witness witness NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 shifting shift VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 xcomp _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 conj _ _ 23 uneasily uneasily ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 confusion confusion NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 bit bite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 out out ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 teacup teacup NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 41 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 48 case _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 41 fixed _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 44 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 47 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **seem** | past · do-support | This | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **encourage** | to-infinitive | This *not said here* | the witness | | all | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Theme | | 3 | **keep** | past | Hatter | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **shift** | gerund | Hatter *not said here* | | | one foot | | to the other *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from foot=Initial\_State to other=Result | | 5 | **look** | gerund | Hatter *not said here* | | | | | at the Queen; uneasily *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at queen=Theme | | 6 | **bite** | past | Hatter | a large piece | | Hatter's confusion | | out Hatter's teacup; instead the butter | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent piece=Patient in confusion=Location | | 7 | **confuse** | | Hatter | | | | | | nom confusion «state transitive»: poss=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 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/12/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/12/48/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/12/)