--- title: However, this bottle was _not_ marked “poison,” so Alice ventured to… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: However, this bottle was _not_ marked “poison,” so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off. Who acts: Alice, bottle. A sentence of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/57/) [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/) / 57 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 57 However, this bottle was \_not\_ marked “poison,” so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off. **Who acts:** Alice, bottle · **What happens:** not mark, venture, taste, find, have, mix · **To what, where:** bottle, fact, mixed flavour, cherry tart 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, bottle), 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:pg11:2:57 # text = However, this bottle was _not_ marked “poison,” so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off. 1 However however ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 6 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 9 punct _ _ 9 marked mark VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 poison poison NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ” " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 ventured venture VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 taste taste VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 finding find VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 very very ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 sort sort NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 amod _ _ 38 flavour flavour NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 cherry cherry NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 tart tart NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 custard custard NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 46 pine pine NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 47 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 50 roast roast NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 51 turkey turkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 53 toffee toffee NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 56 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ _ 57 buttered butter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 58 amod _ _ 58 toast toast NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 60 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 61 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 64 nsubj _ _ 62 very very ADV RB _ 63 advmod _ _ 63 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 64 advmod _ _ 64 finished finish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 65 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 64 obj _ _ 66 off off ADP RP _ 64 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 67 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **mark** | past · passive | | this bottle | | | | however *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | | 2 | **venture** | past | Alice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **taste** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | bottle | | | | | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute | | 4 | **find** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | bottle | | | | nice *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 5 | **have** | past | bottle | fact | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Patient | | 6 | **mix** | participle | | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **butter** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **finish off** | past | Alice | bottle | | | | soon *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality | | 9 | **sort** | | | mixed flavour of cherry tart and custard and pine apple | | | | | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 10 | **flavour** | | | cherry tart and custard and pine apple | | | | | nom flavour «state transitive»: of=patient | 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 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/58/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/)