--- title: It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded with… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded with the birds and animals that had fallen into it: there were a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures. Who acts: history, pool, birds, Duck. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/96/) [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/) / 96 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 96 It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded with the birds and animals that had fallen into it: there were a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures. **Who acts:** history, pool, birds, Duck · **What happens:** be, go, get, fall · **To what, where:** high time, history 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 (history, pool, birds, Duck), 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:pg11:3:96 # text = It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded with the birds and animals that had fallen into it: there were a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 for for SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 conj _ _ 13 quite quite ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 crowded crowded ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 21 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 acl:relcl _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 27 expl _ _ 27 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Duck duck NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Dodo Dodo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Lory Lory PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Eaglet Eaglet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 41 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 42 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 43 curious curious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | history | high time | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **get** | past · progressive | the pool | | | | | crowded *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **fall** | past · perfect | the birds and animals | | | history | | | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into it=Result | | 5 | **be** | past | a Duck and a Dodo and a Lory and a Eaglet and several other curious creatures | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/95/) - next →: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/97/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. The Pool of Tears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/)