--- title: This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape; so sh… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape; so she set off at once, and ran till she was quite tired and out of breath, and till the puppy’s bark sounded quite faint in the distance. Who acts: This, good opportunity, Alice, bark. 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/pg11/5/115/) [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 IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Litt…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/) / 115 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 115 This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape; so she set off at once, and ran till she was quite tired and out of breath, and till the puppy’s bark sounded quite faint in the distance. **Who acts:** This, good opportunity, Alice, bark · **What happens:** seem, make, set off, run, be, sound · **To what, where:** Alice, escape 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 (This, good opportunity, Alice, bark), 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:pg11:5:115 # text = This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape; so she set off at once, and ran till she was quite tired and out of breath, and till the puppy’s bark sounded quite faint in the distance. 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 nsubj _ _ 2 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 opportunity opportunity NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 8 for for SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 escape escape NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 off off ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 till till SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 quite quite ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 ccomp _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 out out ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 33 till till ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 puppy puppy NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ’s 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 sounded sound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 39 quite quite ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 faint faint ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** | past | This | | Alice | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **make** | gerund | a good opportunity *not said here* | Alice's escape | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset escape=Product | | 3 | **set off** | past | Alice | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **run** | past | This *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | past | Alice | | | | | tired *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **sound** | past | the puppy's bark | | | | | faint *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **escape** | | Alice | | | | | | nom escape «act intransitive»: 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 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/114/) - next →: [sentence 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/116/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/)