--- title: Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the tab… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which the words “EAT ME” were beautifully marked in currants. Who acts: eye, little glass box, person. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapt --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/71/) [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/) / 71 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 71 Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which the words “EAT ME” were beautifully marked in currants. **Who acts:** eye, little glass box, person · **What happens:** fall, lie, open, find, eat, mark · **To what, where:** little glass box, table, small cake, poor Alice, words, currants · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (eye, little glass box, person), 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:pg11:2:71 # text = Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which the words “EAT ME” were beautifully marked in currants. 1 Soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 acl:relcl _ _ 13 under under ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 parataxis _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 very very ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 obl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 “ " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 EAT eat VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 33 parataxis _ _ 36 ME I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ” " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 38 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 39 beautifully beautifully ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 marked mark VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 currants currant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | past | person's eye | | | a little glass box | | soon *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on box=Location | | 2 | **lie** | past · progressive | a little glass box | | | the table | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under table=Location | | 3 | **open** | past | person | table | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 4 | **find** | participle | | a small cake | | table | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Topic | | 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive | | poor Alice *= alice* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | | 6 | **mark** | past · passive | | the words | | currants | | beautifully *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme on which=Destination | 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 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/72/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/)