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title: An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes, and… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes, and feebly stretching out one paw, trying to touch her. Who acts: enormous puppy. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 112

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An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes, and feebly stretching out one paw, trying to touch her.

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**Who acts:** enormous puppy · **What happens:** look down, stretch out, try, touch · **To what, where:** one paw, thing

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enormous puppy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg11:5:112
# text = An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes, and feebly stretching out one paw, trying to touch her.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	puppy	puppy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	feebly	feebly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look down** | past · progressive | a enormous puppy |  |  |  |  | at thing; with large round eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |
| 2 | **stretch out** | gerund | a enormous puppy *not said here* | one paw |  |  |  | feebly *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent paw=Patient |
| 3 | **try** | gerund | a enormous puppy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **touch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a enormous puppy *not said here* | thing |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme |

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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.

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**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.

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