--- title: However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were qui… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called out “The race is over!” and they all crowded round it, panting, and asking, “But who has won?” Who acts: Edwin, race. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/37/) [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/) / 37 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 37 However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called out “The race is over!” and they all crowded round it, panting, and asking, “But who has won?” **Who acts:** Edwin, race · **What happens:** run, be, call out, pant, ask, win · **To what, where:** Dodo · **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 (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:pg11:4:37 # text = However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called out “The race is over!” and they all crowded round it, panting, and asking, “But who has won?” 1 However however ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 aux _ _ 7 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 8 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 10 det:predet _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 quite quite ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 18 again again ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Dodo Dodo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 22 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 “ " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 over over ADV RB _ 23 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ! ! PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ” " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 35 det _ _ 35 crowded crowded ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 36 round round ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 panting pant VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 44 “ " PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 But but CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 46 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 48 nsubj _ _ 47 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 won win VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 42 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ? ? PUNCT . _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ” " PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | past · perfect · progressive | Edwin | the Dodo | | | hour | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dodo=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | Edwin *not said here* | | | | again | dry *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **call out** *speech: express* | participle | | | | | | however, suddenly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the race | | | | | over *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **pant** | gerund | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **win** *in a quote* | present · perfect | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/38/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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