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title: There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked; and w… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked; and when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the other, trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle, wondering how she was ever to get out again. Who acts: doors, Alice. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 46

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There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked; and when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the other, trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle, wondering how she was ever to get out again.

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**Who acts:** doors, Alice · **What happens:** be, lock, try, walk, wonder · **To what, where:** doors, way, door, middle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (doors, Alice), 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:pg11:2:46
# text = There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked; and when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the other, trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle, wondering how she was ever to get out again.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	round	round	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	parataxis	_	_
17	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
23	down	down	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
32	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
37	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	down	down	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	advcl	_	_
43	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	48	advmod	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
46	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	48	advmod	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	ccomp	_	_
49	out	out	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
50	again	again	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | doors round the hall |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lock** | past · passive |  | doors *= door* |  |  |  | all *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past · perfect | Alice | all way |  |  |  | one side *nmod* | tree rules |
| 4 | **try** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | every door |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Eventuality |
| 5 | **walk** | past | Alice |  |  | the middle |  | sadly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down middle=Trajectory |
| 6 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is** | past | Alice |  |  |  | ever; again | get, out *property* | tree rules |

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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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