--- title: The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and the… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well. Who acts: rabbit hole, Alice. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» b --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/8/) [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/) / 8 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 8 The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well. **Who acts:** rabbit hole, Alice · **What happens:** go, dip, have, think, stop, find · **To what, where:** Alice 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 (rabbit hole, Alice), 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:pg11:2:8 # text = The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 straight straight ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 on on ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 tunnel tunnel NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 13 det _ _ 13 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 17 dipped dip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 18 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 down down ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl _ _ 31 about about SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 32 stopping stop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 33 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 32 obj _ _ 34 before before SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 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 32 advcl _ _ 37 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 36 obj _ _ 38 falling fall VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 xcomp _ _ 39 down down ADP IN _ 42 mark _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 very very ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 advcl _ _ 43 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 42 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the rabbit hole | | | | | like a tunnel for some way | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **dip** | past | the rabbit hole *not said here* | | | | then | down, suddenly *property* | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** | past | Alice | | | | moment | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stop** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | Alice | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality herself=Eventuality | | 6 | **find** | past | Alice | Alice | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute clause=Theme | | 7 | **fall down** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/9/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/)