--- title: First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, (“the exact… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, (“the exact shape doesn’t matter,” it said,) and then all the party were placed along the course, here and there. Who acts: thing, exact shape. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/35/) [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/) / 35 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 35 First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, (“the exact shape doesn’t matter,” it said,) and then all the party were placed along the course, here and there. **Who acts:** thing, exact shape · **What happens:** mark out, not matter, say, place, sort · **To what, where:** race course, party, course, circle · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (thing, exact shape), 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:pg11:4:35 # text = First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, (“the exact shape doesn’t matter,” it said,) and then all the party were placed along the course, here and there. 1 First first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 advmod _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 marked mark VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 sort sort NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 circle circle NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 “ " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 exact exact ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 22 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 matter matter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 31 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 32 advmod _ _ 32 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 34 det:predet _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 37 along along ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mark out** | past | thing | a race course | | | | first *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **matter** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the exact shape | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | thing | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **place** | past · passive | | all party | | the course; here | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme along course=Destination | | 5 | **sort** | | | circle | | | | | nom sort «cognition 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 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/36/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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