--- title: She got up and went to the table to measure herself by it, and found… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: She got up and went to the table to measure herself by it, and found that, as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet high, and was going on shrinking rapidly: she soon found out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it hastily, just in time to avoid shrin --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/52/) [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/) / 52 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 52 She got up and went to the table to measure herself by it, and found that, as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet high, and was going on shrinking rapidly: she soon found out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether. **Who acts:** Alice, this, cause · **What happens:** get up, go, measure, find, guess, be · **To what, where:** table, Alice, cause 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, this, cause), 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:pg11:3:52 # text = She got up and went to the table to measure herself by it, and found that, as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet high, and was going on shrinking rapidly: she soon found out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 measure measure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 11 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 10 obj _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 that that ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 as as ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 guess guess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 28 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 32 advmod _ _ 29 about about ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 37 on on SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 38 shrinking shrink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 advcl _ _ 39 rapidly rapidly ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 : : PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 41 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 43 advmod _ _ 43 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 44 out out ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ _ 45 that that SCONJ IN _ 55 mark _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nsubj _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 49 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 52 nsubj _ _ 50 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 cop _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 fan fan NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod _ _ 53 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 54 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 55 aux _ _ 55 holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 43 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 58 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 59 nsubj _ _ 59 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 conj _ _ 60 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 59 obj _ _ 61 hastily hastily ADV RB _ 59 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 63 just just ADV RB _ 65 advmod _ _ 64 in in ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 65 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 obl _ _ 66 to to PART TO _ 67 mark _ _ 67 avoid avoid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 65 acl _ _ 68 shrinking shrink VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 67 xcomp _ _ 69 away away ADV RB _ 68 advmod _ _ 70 altogether altogether ADV RB _ 68 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 71 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get up** | past | Alice | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **go** | past | Alice *not said here* | | | the table | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to table=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **measure** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | Alice | | | | by Table | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme herself=Value | | 4 | **find** | past | Alice *not said here* | | | | | that *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **guess** | could | Alice | | | | | nearly *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | past | Alice | | | | now | two feet *obl:unmarked*; high *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **go** | past · progressive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **shrink** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | | | | | rapidly *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **find out** | past | Alice | | | | | soon *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **is** | past | this | | | | | of the fan | tree rules | | 11 | **hold** | past · progressive | the cause | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 12 | **drop** | past | Alice | cause | | | time | hastily *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 13 | **avoid** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 14 | **shrink away** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | | | | | altogether, away *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/53/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. The Pool of Tears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/)