--- title: In a little while, however, she again heard a little pattering of fo… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: In a little while, however, she again heard a little pattering of footsteps in the distance, and she looked up eagerly, half hoping that the Mouse had changed his mind, and was coming back to finish his story. Who acts: Alice, half, Mouse. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Ca --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/95/) [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/) / 95 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 95 In a little while, however, she again heard a little pattering of footsteps in the distance, and she looked up eagerly, half hoping that the Mouse had changed his mind, and was coming back to finish his story. **Who acts:** Alice, half, Mouse · **What happens:** hear, look up, hope, change, come back, finish · **To what, where:** little pattering, mind, story 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, half, Mouse), 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:pg11:4:95 # text = In a little while, however, she again heard a little pattering of footsteps in the distance, and she looked up eagerly, half hoping that the Mouse had changed his mind, and was coming back to finish his story. 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 however however ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 again again ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 pattering pattering NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 footsteps footstep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 23 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 eagerly eagerly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 22 parataxis _ _ 27 hoping hope VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 acl _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Mouse Mouse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 39 back back ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | Alice | a little pattering of footsteps in the distance | | | again; while | however *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer pattering=Stimulus | | 2 | **look up** | past | Alice | | | | | eagerly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **hope** | gerund | half *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **change** | past · perfect | the Mouse | Mouse's mind | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | | 5 | **come back** | past · progressive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **finish** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | Mouse's story | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality story=Eventuality | | 7 | **mind** | | Mouse | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/94/) - next →: [Chapter IV. 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