--- title: Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, no… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw. Who acts: Alice, key, you. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter I. Down the Rab --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/49/) [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/) / 49 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 49 Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw. **Who acts:** Alice, key, you · **What happens:** open, find, lead, kneel down, look, see · **To what, where:** door, small passage, loveliest garden · **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 (Alice, key, you), 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:pg11:2:49 # text = Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw. 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 passage passage NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 much much ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 larger large ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 amod _ _ 18 than than ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 knelt kneel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 26 down down ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 29 along along ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 passage passage NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 loveliest lovely ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 35 amod _ _ 35 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 38 advmod _ _ 38 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | past | Alice | the door | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | | 2 | **find** | past | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **lead** | past | key | | | a small passage | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into passage=Destination | | 4 | **kneel down** | past | Alice | | | | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **look** | past | Alice *not said here* | | | | | along the passage into the loveliest garden | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent along passage=Theme | | 6 | **see** | past | you | the loveliest garden *not said here* | | | ever | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer garden=Stimulus | 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 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/50/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/)