---
title: There was nothing so _very_ remarkable in that; nor did Alice think… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: There was nothing so _very_ remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so _very_ much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, “Oh dear! Who acts: nothing, Alice, Rabbit. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, with its dependency t
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/3/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 3

# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 3

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
There was nothing so \_very\_ remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so \_very\_ much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, “Oh dear!

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** nothing, Alice, Rabbit · **What happens:** be, think, hear, say · **To what, where:** trouble, way, Rabbit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (nothing, Alice, Rabbit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg11:2:3
# text = There was nothing so _very_ remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so _very_ much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, “Oh dear!
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	_
8	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	15	cc	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	much	much	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	36	discourse	_	_
36	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | Alice | trouble |  | the way |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | the Rabbit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the Rabbit *not said here* |  | trouble |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to itself=Recipient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/2/)
- next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/4/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/)