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title: However, she soon made out that she was in the pool of tears which s… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: However, she soon made out that she was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she was nine feet high. Who acts: Alice. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 58

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However, she soon made out that she was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she was nine feet high.

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**Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** make out, be, weep · **To what, where:** pool

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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), 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:pg11:3:58
# text = However, she soon made out that she was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she was nine feet high.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	wept	weep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make out** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  | however, soon *property* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | Alice |  |  | the pool |  | of tears | tree rules |
| 3 | **weep** | past · perfect | Alice | the pool |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  | nine feet *obl:unmarked*; high *property* | tree rules |

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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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