--- title: But her sister sat still just as she left her, leaning her head on h… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: But her sister sat still just as she left her, leaning her head on her hand, watching the setting sun, and thinking of little Alice and all her wonderful Adventures, till she too began dreaming after a fashion, and this was her dream:— Who acts: sister, Alice, this. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/13/93/) [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/) / 93 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 93 But her sister sat still just as she left her, leaning her head on her hand, watching the setting sun, and thinking of little Alice and all her wonderful Adventures, till she too began dreaming after a fashion, and this was her dream:— **Who acts:** sister, Alice, this · **What happens:** sit, leave, lean, watch, think, begin · **To what, where:** Alice, head, hand, setting sun, dream 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 (sister, Alice, this), 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:pg11:13:93 # text = But her sister sat still just as she left her, leaning her head on her hand, watching the setting sun, and thinking of little Alice and all her wonderful Adventures, till she too began dreaming after a fashion, and this was her dream:— 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 still still ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 just just ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 leaning lean VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 setting setting NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 33 det:predet _ _ 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 Adventures adventure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 till till SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 too too ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 39 dreaming dream VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 xcomp _ _ 40 after after ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 fashion fashion NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 45 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 48 nsubj _ _ 46 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 47 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 — - PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past | Alice's sister | | | | still | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **leave** | past | sister | Alice | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 3 | **lean** | gerund | sister *not said here* | Alice's head | | Alice's hand | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on hand=Destination | | 4 | **watch** | gerund | sister *not said here* | the setting sun | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Theme | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Alice's sister *not said here* | | | | | of little Alice and Alice's wonderful Adventures | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **begin** | past | Alice | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **dream** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | | | | after a fashion | | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is a** | past | this | Alice's dream | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **adventure** | | Alice | | | | | | nom adventure «act 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. - 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