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title: And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and her face… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and her face brightened up at the thought that she was now the right size for going through the little door into that lovely garden. Who acts: feeling, face, right size. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 62

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And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and her face brightened up at the thought that she was now the right size for going through the little door into that lovely garden.

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**Who acts:** feeling, face, right size · **What happens:** be, brighten up, go · **To what, where:** thought, right size, little door

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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 (feeling, face, right size), 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:pg11:2:62
# text = And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and her face brightened up at the thought that she was now the right size for going through the little door into that lovely garden.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	brightened	brighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
26	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
32	through	through	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
38	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | feeling |  |  |  | now | ten inches *obl:unmarked*; high *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **brighten up** | participle | feeling's face |  |  | the thought |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past | feeling | the right size |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | gerund | the right size *not said here* |  |  | the little door |  | into that lovely garden | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through door=Initial\_Location into garden=Destination |

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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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