--- title: Then they all crowded round her once more, while the Dodo solemnly p… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Then they all crowded round her once more, while the Dodo solemnly presented the thimble, saying “We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble;” and, when it had finished this short speech, they all cheered. Who acts: Dodo, We, prizes, your. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/50/) [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/) / 50 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 50 Then they all crowded round her once more, while the Dodo solemnly presented the thimble, saying “We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble;” and, when it had finished this short speech, they all cheered. **Who acts:** Dodo, We, prizes, your · **What happens:** present, say, beg, finish, cheer, accept · **To what, where:** thimble, acceptance, elegant thimble · **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 (Dodo, We, prizes, your), 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:pg11:4:50 # text = Then they all crowded round her once more, while the Dodo solemnly presented the thimble, saying “We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble;” and, when it had finished this short speech, they all cheered. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 crowded crowded ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 round round ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 8 advmod _ _ 8 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 while while SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Dodo Dodo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 solemnly solemnly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 presented present VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 thimble thimble NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 19 “ " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 beg beg VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 acceptance acceptance NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 det _ _ 26 elegant elegant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 thimble thimble NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ” " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 35 advmod _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 36 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 38 det _ _ 37 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 42 advmod _ _ 42 cheered cheer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **present** | past | the Dodo | the thimble | | | | solemnly *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thimble=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Dodo *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **beg** *speech: request* *in a quote* | present | We | your acceptance of this elegant thimble | | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent acceptance=Recipient | | 4 | **finish** | past · perfect · passive | | acceptance | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **cheer** | past | prizes *= prize* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **accept** *in a quote* | | your | this elegant thimble | | | | | nom acceptance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent 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 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/51/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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