--- title: Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand in her… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand in her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits, (luckily the salt water had not got into it), and handed them round as prizes. Who acts: Alice, salt water. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter III. A --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/43/) [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/) / 43 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 43 Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand in her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits, (luckily the salt water had not got into it), and handed them round as prizes. **Who acts:** Alice, salt water · **What happens:** have, do, put, pull out, not get, hand · **To what, where:** idea, hand, despair, box, comfits 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 (Alice, salt water), 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:pg11:4:43 # text = Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand in her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits, (luckily the salt water had not got into it), and handed them round as prizes. 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 despair despair NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 22 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 comfits comfit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 luckily luckily ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 33 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 parataxis _ _ 36 into into 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 -RRB- _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 handed hand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 42 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 case _ _ 44 as as ADP IN _ 43 fixed _ _ 45 prizes prize NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Alice | no idea | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | | 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | no idea | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 3 | **put** | past | Alice | Alice's hand | | despair | | in Alice's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in despair=Destination | | 4 | **pull out** | participle | | a box of comfits | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **get** | past · perfect | the salt water | | | box | | luckily *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination | | 6 | **hand** | past | Alice *not said here* | comfits *= comfit* | | | | round prizes | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/44/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/)