--- title: The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they had a c… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they had a consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if she had known them all her life. Who acts: first question, animals, it, Alice. A sentence of «Alice --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/2/) [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 III. A Caucus-Race and a Long…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/) / 2 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 2 The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they had a consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if she had known them all her life. **Who acts:** first question, animals, it, Alice · **What happens:** be, have, seem, find, talk, know · **To what, where:** consultation, Alice, animals, course This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first question, animals, it, Alice), 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:pg11:4:2 # text = The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they had a consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if she had known them all her life. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:outer _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 again again ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 consultation consultation NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 about about ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 after after ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 28 quite quite ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 34 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 33 obj _ _ 35 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 xcomp _ _ 36 familiarly familiarly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 as as SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 41 if if SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 42 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 conj _ _ 45 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 48 det:predet _ _ 47 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the first question of course | | | | again | dry, get *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | past | animals *= animal* | a consultation | | | | about this | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consultation=Patient | | 3 | **seem** | past | it | | | | minute | natural *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | | Alice | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute clause=Theme | | 5 | **talk** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | | | | | with animals *= animal*; familiarly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent | | 6 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Alice | animals *= animal* | | | | Alice's life *obl:unmarked* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 7 | **question** | | | course | | | | | nom question «communication 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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/3/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/)