--- title: First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, b… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. Who acts: Alice, well. A sente --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/10/) [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 I. Down the Rabbit-Hole](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/) / 10 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 10 First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. **Who acts:** Alice, well · **What happens:** try, look down, make out, come, be, see · **To what, where:** anything, sides, maps, pictures, pegs · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, well), 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:pg11:2:10 # text = First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. 1 First first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 down down ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 10 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 obj _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 parataxis _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 too too ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 24 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 well well NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 39 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 ccomp _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 cupboards cupboard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 45 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 shelves shelf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ; ; PUNCT : _ 53 punct _ _ 49 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 53 advmod _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 49 conj _ _ 52 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 53 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 54 maps map NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 obj _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 56 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 conj _ _ 57 hung hang VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 56 acl _ _ 58 upon upon ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 59 pegs peg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 60 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | past | Alice | | | | | first *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **look down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **make out** | infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **come** | past · progressive | Alice | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme | | 5 | **is** | past | well | | | | | dark *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | well *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | | 7 | **look** | past | Alice | | | | then | at the sides of the well | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at side=Theme | | 8 | **notice** | past | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 9 | **fill** | past · passive | | sides *= side* | | | | with cupboards and book shelves | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with cupboard=Instrument | | 10 | **see** | past | Alice | maps and pictures | | here | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer map=Stimulus | | 11 | **hang** | participle | | pictures *not said here* | | pegs | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon peg=Location | 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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/11/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/)