--- title: Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked so gr… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked so grave that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not think of anything to say, she simply bowed, and took the thimble, looking as solemn as she could. Who acts: Alice, prizes. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/51/) [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/) / 51 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 51 Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked so grave that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not think of anything to say, she simply bowed, and took the thimble, looking as solemn as she could. **Who acts:** Alice, prizes · **What happens:** think, look, not dare, not laugh, not think, say · **To what, where:** whole thing, 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 (Alice, prizes), 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:pg11:4:51 # text = Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked so grave that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not think of anything to say, she simply bowed, and took the thimble, looking as solemn as she could. 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 very very ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 absurd absurd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 12 advmod _ _ 12 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 grave grave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 dare dare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 advcl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 29 obl _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 simply simply ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 bowed bow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 thimble thimble NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 advcl _ _ 45 as as ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 solemn solemn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 xcomp _ _ 47 as as SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 48 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Alice | the whole thing | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | | 2 | **look** | past | prizes *= prize* | | | | | grave *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **dare** | past · do-support | Alice | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **laugh** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | could | Alice | | | | | of anything | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **bow** | past | Alice | | | | | simply *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **take** | past | Alice *not said here* | the thimble | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thimble=Theme | | 9 | **look** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | | | | | solemn *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/52/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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