--- title: Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that, in her haste, she had pu… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that, in her haste, she had put the Lizard in head downwards, and the poor little thing was waving its tail about in a melancholy way, being quite unable to move. Who acts: Alice, poor little thing. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carro --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/13/4/) [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 XII. Alice’s Evidence](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/13/) / 4 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 4 Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that, in her haste, she had put the Lizard in head downwards, and the poor little thing was waving its tail about in a melancholy way, being quite unable to move. **Who acts:** Alice, poor little thing · **What happens:** look, see, put, wave, be, move · **To what, where:** that, Lizard, head, tail This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, poor little thing), 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:pg11:13:4 # text = Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that, in her haste, she had put the Lizard in head downwards, and the poor little thing was waving its tail about in a melancholy way, being quite unable to move. 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 jury jury NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 11 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 haste haste NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 acl:relcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Lizard Lizard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 downwards downwards ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 waving wave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 33 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 about about ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 melancholy melancholy NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 43 cop _ _ 42 quite quite ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 unable unable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | Alice | | | | | at the jury box | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at box=Theme | | 2 | **see** | past | | that | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | | 3 | **put** | past · perfect | Alice | the Lizard | | head | | downwards *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lizard=Theme in head=Destination | | 4 | **wave** | past · progressive | the poor little thing | thing's tail | | | | in a melancholy way; about *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Patient in way=Theme | | 5 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | unable *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **move** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | 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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/13/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/13/5/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/13/)