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title: It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair o… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other: he came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came, “Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess! Who acts: eye, Rabbit. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonder
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 20

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It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other: he came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came, “Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess!

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**Who acts:** eye, Rabbit · **What happens:** return, dress, come, trot, mutter · **To what, where:** one hand, great hurry, Rabbit, Duchess

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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 (eye, Rabbit), 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:pg11:3:20
# text = It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other: he came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came, “Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess!
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	fan	fan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
31	trotting	trot	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	xcomp	_	_
32	along	along	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	muttering	mutter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	advcl	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	38	obl	_	_
41	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	49	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	46	punct	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past · progressive | eye |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dress** | participle |  |  |  | one hand and a large fan in the other |  | with a pair of white kid gloves; splendidly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **trot** | gerund | Rabbit *not said here* |  |  | a great hurry |  | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hurry=Trajectory |
| 5 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | gerund | Rabbit *not said here* |  | Rabbit |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
| 6 | **come** | past | Rabbit | the Duchess and the Duchess |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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