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title: But she went on all the same, shedding gallons of tears, until there… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: But she went on all the same, shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool all round her, about four inches deep and reaching half down the hall. Who acts: Alice, shedding. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, with its dependenc
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 18

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But she went on all the same, shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool all round her, about four inches deep and reaching half down the hall.

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**Who acts:** Alice, shedding · **What happens:** go, shed, be, reach · **To what, where:** same, gallons, large pool, half

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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 (Alice, shedding), 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:pg11:3:18
# text = But she went on all the same, shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool all round her, about four inches deep and reaching half down the hall.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	shedding	shed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	_
10	gallons	gallon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	round	round	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
30	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	29	obj	_	_
31	down	down	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Alice |  |  | all same |  | round girl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round she=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **shed** | gerund |  | gallons of tears |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gallon=Source |
| 3 | **is a** | past | shedding | a large pool |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **reach** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | half |  |  |  | down the hall | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent half=Theme |

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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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