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title: First, however, she waited for a few minutes to see if she was going… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: First, however, she waited for a few minutes to see if she was going to shrink any further: she felt a little nervous about this; “for it might end, you know,” said Alice to herself, “in my going out altogether, like a candle. Who acts: feeling, telescope, Alice. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 63

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First, however, she waited for a few minutes to see if she was going to shrink any further: she felt a little nervous about this; “for it might end, you know,” said Alice to herself, “in my going out altogether, like a candle.

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**Who acts:** feeling, telescope, Alice · **What happens:** wait, see, go, shrink, feel, end · **To what, where:** feeling · **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 (feeling, telescope, Alice), 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:pg11:2:63
# text = First, however, she waited for a few minutes to see if she was going to shrink any further: she felt a little nervous about this; “for it might end, you know,” said Alice to herself, “in my going out altogether, like a candle.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	shrink	shrink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	any	any	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	nervous	nervous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
27	about	about	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
40	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
41	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
47	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	40	ccomp	_	_
49	out	out	ADP	RP	_	48	compound:prt	_	_
50	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	like	like	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | feeling |  |  |  | minute | first, however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | feeling *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · progressive | feeling |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **shrink** | to-infinitive | feeling *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **feel** | past | feeling |  |  |  |  | nervous *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **end** *in a quote* | might | telescope |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 7 | **know** *in a quote* | present | feeling |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Alice |  | feeling |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 9 | **go out** *in a quote* | gerund | Alice |  |  |  |  | like a candle; altogether *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=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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