--- title: Alice felt so desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one; s… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Alice felt so desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, “If you please, sir—” The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go. Who acts: --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/22/) [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/) / 22 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 22 Alice felt so desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, “If you please, sir—” The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go. **Who acts:** Alice, Rabbit, sir · **What happens:** feel, be, ask, come, begin, start · **To what, where:** help, low timid voice, white kid gloves, one 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, Rabbit, sir), 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:pg11:3:22 # text = Alice felt so desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, “If you please, sir—” The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go. 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 desperate desperate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 14 det _ _ 14 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 when when SCONJ WRB _ 21 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 near near ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 30 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 timid timid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 “ " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 If if SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 please please INTJ UH _ 40 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 40 sir sir NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 — - PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 43 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 Rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 46 violently violently ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 48 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 conj _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 50 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 51 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 compound _ _ 52 gloves glove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obj _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 fan fan NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 58 skurried skurry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 59 away away ADV RB _ 58 advmod _ _ 60 into into ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 61 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 62 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obl:agent _ _ 63 as as ADV RB _ 64 advmod _ _ 64 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 58 advmod _ _ 65 as as SCONJ IN _ 68 mark _ _ 66 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 68 nsubj _ _ 67 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 68 aux _ _ 68 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 64 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | past | Alice | | | | | desperate *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | past | Alice | | | | | ready *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | help of any one | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent help=Recipient | | 4 | **come** | past | the Rabbit | | | | | near Alice | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near she=Location | | 5 | **begin** | past | Alice | | | a low timid voice | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 6 | **start** | past | sir | | | | | violently *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **drop** | past | sir *not said here* | the white kid gloves and the fan | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=Theme | | 8 | **skurry away** | participle | Alice *not said here* | | | | | away, hard *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **go** | could | Rabbit | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **help** | | | any one | | | | | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/23/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. The Pool of Tears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/)