--- title: She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/68/) [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/) / 68 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 68 She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people. **Who acts:** Alice, curious child · **What happens:** give, follow, scold, bring, remember, try · **To what, where:** good advice, Alice, advice, tears, eyes, box 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, curious child), 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:pg11:2:68 # text = She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 generally generally ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 iobj _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 though though SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 very very ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 seldom seldom ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 21 advmod _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 scolded scold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 21 obj _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 severely severely ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 28 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 into into ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 36 advmod _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 remembered remember VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 37 trying try VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 xcomp _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 xcomp _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 41 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 43 for for SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 44 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 45 aux _ _ 45 cheated cheat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 37 advcl _ _ 46 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 45 obj _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 50 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 croquet croquet NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod _ _ 52 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 53 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 54 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 51 acl:relcl _ _ 55 against against ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 54 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 58 for for SCONJ IN _ 64 mark _ _ 59 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 61 det _ _ 60 curious curious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 amod _ _ 61 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 nsubj _ _ 62 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 64 cop _ _ 63 very very ADV RB _ 64 advmod _ _ 64 fond fond ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 parataxis _ _ 65 of of SCONJ IN _ 66 mark _ _ 66 pretending pretend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 64 advcl _ _ 67 to to PART TO _ 69 mark _ _ 68 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 69 cop _ _ 69 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 70 nummod _ _ 70 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 66 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 71 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | Alice | good advice | Alice | | | generally *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient advice=Theme | | 2 | **follow** | past | Alice | advice | | | | seldom *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **scold** | past | Alice | Alice | | | | severely, sometimes *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | | 4 | **bring** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | tears | | Alice's eyes | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tear=Theme into eye=Destination | | 5 | **remember** | past | Alice | | | | | once *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **try** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | box Alice's own ears | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **cheat** | gerund · perfect | Alice *not said here* | Alice | | a game of croquet | | | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Source | | 8 | **play** | past · progressive | Alice | croquet *not said here* | | | | against Alice | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent croquet=Theme | | 9 | **is** | past | this curious child | | | | | fond *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **pretend** | gerund | this curious child *not said here* | two people | | | | | tree rules | | 11 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | two | | | | | tree rules | 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 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/69/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/)