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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 48

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However, on the second time round, she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high: she tried the little golden key in the lock, and to her great delight it fitted!

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**Who acts:** Alice, curtain, key · **What happens:** come, not notice, be, try, fit, delight · **To what, where:** low curtain, little door, little golden key, lock, great delight

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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, curtain, 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:pg11:2:48
# text = However, on the second time round, she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high: she tried the little golden key in the lock, and to her great delight it fitted!
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
7	round	round	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	before	before	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
28	about	about	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
31	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
46	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	fitted	fit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 low curtain | time | however *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon curtain=Location |
| 2 | **not** **notice** | past · perfect | Alice | a low curtain *not said here* |  |  |  | before *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer curtain=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | past | curtain | a little door |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **try** | past | Alice | the little golden key |  | the lock |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Eventuality |
| 5 | **fit** | past | key |  |  |  |  | to Alice's great delight *goal* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent to delight=Goal |
| 6 | **delight** |  | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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