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title: She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was la… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was labelled “ORANGE MARMALADE”, but to her great disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody underneath, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it. Who acts: Alice, 
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 11

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She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was labelled “ORANGE MARMALADE”, but to her great disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody underneath, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.

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**Who acts:** Alice, jar, fear · **What happens:** take down, pass, labell, be, not like, drop · **To what, where:** jar, somebody

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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, jar, fear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg11:2:11
# text = She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was labelled “ORANGE MARMALADE”, but to her great disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody underneath, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	shelves	shelf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	labelled	labell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	ORANGE	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	MARMALADE	marmalade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
43	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	acl	_	_
44	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	43	obj	_	_
45	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	so	so	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	managed	manage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	conj	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	xcomp	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	into	into	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	50	obl	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	cupboards	cupboard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nmod	_	_
57	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
58	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
59	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	advcl	_	_
60	past	past	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take down** | past | Alice | a jar |  |  |  | from one of the shelves | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **labell** | past · passive |  | jar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | jar |  |  |  |  | to Alice's great disappointment; empty *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **drop** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | the jar |  |  |  | for fear | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Theme |
| 7 | **kill** | gerund | fear *not said here* | somebody |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent somebody=Theme |
| 8 | **manage** | participle | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 9 | **put** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | jar |  |  |  | into one of the cupboards | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
| 10 | **fall** | past | Alice |  |  | jar |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme past it=Initial\_Location |
| 11 | **disappoint** |  | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | nom disappointment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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