--- title: There was no “One, two, three, and away,” but they began running whe… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: There was no “One, two, three, and away,” but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. Who acts: One, Edwin, race. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/36/) [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/) / 36 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 36 There was no “One, two, three, and away,” but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. **Who acts:** One, Edwin, race · **What happens:** be, begin, run, like, leave off, not be · **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 (One, Edwin, race), 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:pg11:4:36 # text = There was no “One, two, three, and away,” but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 4 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 away away ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ” " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 18 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 xcomp _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 liked like VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 25 off off ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 liked like VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 expl _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 csubj _ _ 38 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 42 advmod _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 42 over over ADV RB _ 37 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | no One | | | there | | away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **begin** | past | Edwin | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **run** | gerund | Edwin *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **like** | past | Edwin | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **leave off** | participle | Edwin *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **like** | past | Edwin | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 7 | **not** **is** | past | Edwin *not said here* | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **know** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **is** | past | the race | | | | | over *property* | tree rules | 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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/37/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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