--- title: She was close behind it when she turned the corner, but the Rabbit w… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: She was close behind it when she turned the corner, but the Rabbit was no longer to be seen: she found herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging from the roof. Who acts: Alice, wind, row, lamps. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/45/) [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/) / 45 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 45 She was close behind it when she turned the corner, but the Rabbit was no longer to be seen: she found herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging from the roof. **Who acts:** Alice, wind, row, lamps · **What happens:** be, turn, see, find, lit up, hang · **To what, where:** wind, corner, Rabbit, Alice, long low hall, roof 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, wind, row, lamps), 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:pg11:2:45 # text = She was close behind it when she turned the corner, but the Rabbit was no longer to be seen: she found herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging from the roof. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 4 behind behind ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 16 no no ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 20 advmod _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 24 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 23 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 27 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 lit lit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl:relcl _ _ 35 up up ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 row row NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 lamps lamp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 41 hanging hang VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 acl _ _ 42 from from ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Alice | | | wind | | close *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **turn** | past | wind | the corner | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme corner=Result | | 3 | **see** | past · passive | | the Rabbit | | | | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 4 | **find** | past | Alice | Alice | | a long low hall | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic | | 5 | **lit up** | past · passive | a row of lamps | a long low hall | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **hang** | gerund | lamps *not said here* | | | the roof | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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. - ← previous: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/46/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/)