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title: Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall: in fact she… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall: in fact she was now more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door. Who acts: head. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, wi
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 13

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Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall: in fact she was now more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door.

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**Who acts:** head · **What happens:** strike, be, take up, hurry off · **To what, where:** roof, fact, little golden key, garden door

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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 (head), 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:pg11:3:13
# text = Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall: in fact she was now more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	against	against	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
18	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	20	advmod	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	28	obl	_	_
28	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
36	off	off	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past | Alice's head |  |  | the roof of the hall | then |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against roof=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | head |  |  | fact | now | nine feet *obl:unmarked*; high *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take up** | past | head | the little golden key |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent key=Theme at once=Asset |
| 4 | **hurry off** | past | head *not said here* |  |  | the garden door |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to door=Destination |

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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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