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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 6

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(when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually \_took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket\_, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.

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**Who acts:** Alice, Rabbit, it · **What happens:** think, occur, wonder, seem, take, look · **To what, where:** Rabbit, Alice, this, watch, waistcoat pocket, mind

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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, Rabbit, it), 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:pg11:2:6
# text = (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually _took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket_, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	RP	_	4	ccomp	_	_
7	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	occurred	occur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
18	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	all	all	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
29	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
34	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	39	advmod	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	out	out	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
45	waistcoat	waistcoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	parataxis	_	_
52	at	at	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
56	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	57	advmod	_	_
57	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	conj	_	_
58	on	on	ADP	RP	_	57	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
60	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	nsubj	_	_
61	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	parataxis	_	_
62	to	to	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	64	nmod:poss	_	_
64	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
66	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	68	mark	_	_
67	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	68	nsubj	_	_
68	flashed	flash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	61	conj	_	_
69	across	across	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
70	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	71	nmod:poss	_	_
71	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	obl	_	_
72	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	77	mark	_	_
73	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	77	nsubj	_	_
74	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	77	aux	_	_
75	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	76	advmod	_	_
76	before	before	ADV	RB	_	77	advmod	_	_
77	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	68	advcl	_	_
78	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	79	det	_	_
79	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	77	obj	_	_
80	with	with	ADP	IN	_	85	case	_	_
81	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	85	cc:preconj	_	_
82	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	85	det	_	_
83	waistcoat	waistcoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	85	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
84	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	83	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
85	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	77	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
86	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	89	punct	_	_
87	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	89	cc	_	_
88	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	89	det	_	_
89	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	77	obl	_	_
90	to	to	PART	TO	_	91	mark	_	_
91	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	89	acl	_	_
92	out	out	ADP	IN	_	94	case	_	_
93	of	of	ADP	IN	_	94	case	_	_
94	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	91	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
95	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	97	punct	_	_
96	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	97	cc	_	_
97	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	advcl	_	_
98	with	with	ADP	IN	_	99	case	_	_
99	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	97	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
100	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	102	punct	_	_
101	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	102	nsubj	_	_
102	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
103	across	across	ADP	IN	_	105	case	_	_
104	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	105	det	_	_
105	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	102	obl	_	_
106	after	after	ADP	IN	_	107	case	_	_
107	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	102	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
108	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	114	punct	_	_
109	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	114	cc	_	_
110	fortunately	fortunately	ADV	RB	_	114	advmod	_	_
111	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	114	cop	_	_
112	just	just	ADV	RB	_	114	advmod	_	_
113	in	in	ADP	IN	_	114	case	_	_
114	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
115	to	to	PART	TO	_	116	mark	_	_
116	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	114	acl	_	_
117	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	116	obj	_	_
118	pop	pop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	116	xcomp	_	_
119	down	down	ADP	RP	_	118	compound:prt	_	_
120	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	124	det	_	_
121	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	124	amod	_	_
122	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	124	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
123	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	122	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
124	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	118	obj	_	_
125	under	under	ADP	IN	_	127	case	_	_
126	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	127	det	_	_
127	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	124	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
128	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Alice | Rabbit |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 2 | **occur** | past | Rabbit |  | Alice |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | ought · perfect | Alice |  |  | this |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  | time | all, natural *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | past | the Rabbit | a watch |  | Rabbit's waistcoat pocket |  | actually *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme out pocket=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | at Rabbit | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
| 7 | **hurry on** | participle |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **start** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  | to Alice's feet | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 9 | **flash** | past | Rabbit |  |  | Alice's mind |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **see** | past · perfect | Alice | a rabbit |  |  |  | with a waistcoat pocket; a watch *obl*; before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rabbit=Stimulus |
| 11 | **take out** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 12 | **burn** | gerund | the Rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with curiosity | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with curiosity=Theme |
| 13 | **run** | past | Alice |  |  | the field | after Rabbit |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across field=Trajectory |
| 14 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | in time | fortunately *property* | tree rules |
| 15 | **see** | to-infinitive | the Rabbit *not said here* | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 16 | **pop down** | infinitive | Rabbit *not said here* | a large rabbit hole |  | the hedge |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient |
| 17 | **mind** |  | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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