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title: Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made of soli… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made of solid glass; there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key, and Alice’s first thought was that it might belong to one of the doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too small, but at any rate it 
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 47

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Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made of solid glass; there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key, and Alice’s first thought was that it might belong to one of the doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too small, but at any rate it would not open any of them.

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**Who acts:** Alice, little legged table, nothing, key, locks · **What happens:** come, make, be, think, belong, not open · **To what, where:** little legged table, all, Alice, one, any, rate · **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 (Alice, little legged table, nothing, key), 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:pg11:2:47
# text = Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made of solid glass; there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key, and Alice’s first thought was that it might belong to one of the doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too small, but at any rate it would not open any of them.
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	legged	legged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	nsubj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	_
23	except	except	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	33	advmod	_	_
33	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
34	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	ccomp	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	belong	belong	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	57	punct	_	_
48	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	57	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	50	punct	_	_
52	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc:preconj	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nsubj	_	_
55	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	_
56	too	too	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
59	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nsubj	_	_
62	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	64	cop	_	_
63	too	too	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	_
64	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	73	punct	_	_
66	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	73	cc	_	_
67	at	at	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
68	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	69	det	_	_
69	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	obl	_	_
70	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	73	nsubj	_	_
71	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	73	aux	_	_
72	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	73	advmod	_	_
73	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
74	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	73	obj	_	_
75	of	of	ADP	IN	_	76	case	_	_
76	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	74	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Alice |  |  | a little legged table |  | suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon table=Location |
| 2 | **make** | participle · passive | a little legged table *not said here* | all |  |  |  | of solid glass | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **be** | past | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | Alice |  |  |  | first *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 5 | **be** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **belong** | might | key |  | one of the doors of the hall |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | past | the locks |  |  |  |  | large *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** | past | the key |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **not** **open** | would | key | any |  | any rate |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent any=Theme at rate=Location |

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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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