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title: After a while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided on go… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: After a while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided on going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor Alice! when she got to the door, she found she had forgotten the little golden key, and when she went back to the table for it, she found she could not possibly reach it: she could see
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 66

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After a while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided on going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor Alice! when she got to the door, she found she had forgotten the little golden key, and when she went back to the table for it, she found she could not possibly reach it: she could see it quite plainly through the glass, and she tried her best to climb up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery; and when she had tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing sat down and cried.

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**Who acts:** while, nothing, Alice, alas, key, poor little thing · **What happens:** find, happen, decide, go, get, forget · **To what, where:** garden, little golden key, key, glass, best, one · **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 (while, nothing, Alice, alas), 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:pg11:2:66
# text = After a while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided on going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor Alice! when she got to the door, she found she had forgotten the little golden key, and when she went back to the table for it, she found she could not possibly reach it: she could see it quite plainly through the glass, and she tried her best to climb up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery; and when she had tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing sat down and cried.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	nsubj	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
9	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	alas	ala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	ccomp	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	48	advmod	_	_
47	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
49	back	back	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
53	for	for	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	parataxis	_	_
58	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
59	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	62	aux	_	_
60	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	62	advmod	_	_
61	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
62	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	ccomp	_	_
63	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	67	punct	_	_
65	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	67	nsubj	_	_
66	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	67	aux	_	_
67	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	parataxis	_	_
68	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	67	obj	_	_
69	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	70	advmod	_	_
70	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	67	advmod	_	_
71	through	through	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
72	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	73	det	_	_
73	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	77	punct	_	_
75	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	77	cc	_	_
76	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	77	nsubj	_	_
77	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	67	parataxis	_	_
78	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	79	nmod:poss	_	_
79	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	77	obj	_	_
80	to	to	PART	TO	_	81	mark	_	_
81	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	77	xcomp	_	_
82	up	up	ADP	RP	_	81	compound:prt	_	_
83	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	81	obj	_	_
84	of	of	ADP	IN	_	86	case	_	_
85	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	86	det	_	_
86	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	83	nmod	_	_
87	of	of	ADP	IN	_	89	case	_	_
88	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	89	det	_	_
89	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	86	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
90	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	95	punct	_	_
91	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	95	cc	_	_
92	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	95	nsubj	_	_
93	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	95	cop	_	_
94	too	too	ADV	RB	_	95	advmod	_	_
95	slippery	slippery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
96	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	100	punct	_	_
97	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	100	cc	_	_
98	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	100	advmod	_	_
99	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	100	nsubj	_	_
100	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
101	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	102	amod	_	_
102	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	100	obl	_	_
103	out	out	ADP	RP	_	100	compound:prt	_	_
104	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	105	mark	_	_
105	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	100	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
106	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	111	punct	_	_
107	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	110	det	_	_
108	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	110	amod	_	_
109	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	110	amod	_	_
110	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	111	nsubj	_	_
111	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	105	parataxis	_	_
112	down	down	ADP	RP	_	111	compound:prt	_	_
113	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	114	cc	_	_
114	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	111	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
115	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | gerund | a while *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **happen** | past | nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **decide** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | gerund | Alice *not said here* |  |  | the garden |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **get** | past | alas for poor Alice |  |  |  | while | to the door *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to door=Result |
| 6 | **find** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **forget** | past · perfect | Alice | the little golden key |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **go back** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  | to the table *result*; for table | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to table=Result |
| 9 | **find** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 10 | **not** **reach** | could | Alice | key |  |  |  | possibly *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 11 | **see** | could | Alice | key |  | the glass |  | plainly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 12 | **try** | past | Alice | Alice's best |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 13 | **climb up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | one of the legs of the table |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location one=Theme |
| 14 | **is** | past | key |  |  |  |  | slippery *property* | tree rules |
| 15 | **have out** | past | Alice | Alice |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 16 | **try** | gerund | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 17 | **sit down** | past | the poor little thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 18 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the poor little thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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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