--- title: “Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised, t… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); “now I’m opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Who acts: Curiouser, Alice, good English. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carro --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/1/) [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 II. The Pool of Tears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/) / 1 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 1 “Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); “now I’m opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! **Who acts:** Curiouser, Alice, good English · **What happens:** cry, be, forget, not speak, open out · **To what, where:** Alice, moment · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Curiouser, Alice, good English), 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:pg11:3:1 # text = “Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); “now I’m opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Curiouser curious ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 curiouser curious ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 7 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 much much ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 surprised surprised ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 obl _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 quite quite ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 forgot forget VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 26 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 “ " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ’m be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 34 opening open VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 xcomp _ _ 35 out out ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 like like ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 39 amod _ _ 39 telescope telescope NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 40 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 nsubj _ _ 41 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 42 advmod _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ! ! PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Curiouser | Alice | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alice=Topic | | 2 | **is** | past | Alice | | | | | that *obl*; surprised *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **forget** | past | Alice | the moment *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | good English | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **be** *in a quote* | present | Curiouser *= curious* | | | | now | | tree rules | | 6 | **open out** *in a quote* | gerund | Curiouser *= curious* *not said here* | | | | | like the largest telescope | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «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: [Chapter I. 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