--- title: There was not a moment to be lost: away went Alice like the wind, an… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: There was not a moment to be lost: away went Alice like the wind, and was just in time to hear it say, as it turned a corner, “Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it’s getting!” Who acts: moment, wind. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/44/) [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/) / 44 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 44 There was not a moment to be lost: away went Alice like the wind, and was just in time to hear it say, as it turned a corner, “Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it’s getting!” **Who acts:** moment, wind · **What happens:** not be, lose, go, be, hear, say · **To what, where:** Alice, wind, corner · **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 (moment, wind), 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:pg11:2:44 # text = There was not a moment to be lost: away went Alice like the wind, and was just in time to hear it say, as it turned a corner, “Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it’s getting!” 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 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 away away ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 12 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 just just ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 “ " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 36 discourse _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 41 advmod _ _ 41 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 43 advmod _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 44 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 43 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ! ! PUNCT . _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ” " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **be** | past | a moment | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **lose** | to-infinitive · passive | a moment *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» | | 3 | **go** | past | | Alice | | | | like the wind; away *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location alice=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | | | | | in time | | tree rules | | 5 | **hear** | to-infinitive | a moment *not said here* | wind | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | wind *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **turn** | past | wind | a corner and my ears and whiskers | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme corner=Result | | 8 | **get** *in a quote* | gerund | wind *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/45/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/)