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title: How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head through the doorway; “and even if my head would go through,” thought poor Alice, “it would be of very little use without my shoulders. Who ac
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 50

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How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head through the doorway; “and even if my head would go through,” thought poor Alice, “it would be of very little use without my shoulders.

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**Who acts:** Alice, head, poor Alice, key · **What happens:** long, get out, wander, not get, go through, think · **To what, where:** dark hall, beds, head, doorway · **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, head, poor Alice, 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:pg11:2:50
# text = How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head through the doorway; “and even if my head would go through,” thought poor Alice, “it would be of very little use without my shoulders.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	longed	long	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	wander	wander	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	among	among	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	even	even	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	through	through	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
38	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
40	even	even	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
41	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
42	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
44	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	ccomp	_	_
46	through	through	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	45	punct	_	_
49	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
50	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
53	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
55	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
56	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	cop	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	very	very	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
59	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	ccomp	_	_
61	without	without	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	63	nmod:poss	_	_
63	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	49	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **long** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **get out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | that dark hall |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wander** | present |  |  |  | that beds of bright flowers and that cool fountains |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among bed=Trajectory |
| 4 | **not** **get** | could | Alice | Alice's head |  | the doorway |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus |
| 5 | **go through** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | would | my head |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | poor Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | would | key |  |  |  |  | of little use; without my shoulders | 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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