--- title: There was a large mushroom growing near her, about the same height a… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: There was a large mushroom growing near her, about the same height as herself; and when she had looked under it, and on both sides of it, and behind it, it occurred to her that she might as well look and see what was on the top of it. Who acts: large mushroom, mushroom, side. A sentence of «Alice's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/123/) [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/) / 123 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 123 There was a large mushroom growing near her, about the same height as herself; and when she had looked under it, and on both sides of it, and behind it, it occurred to her that she might as well look and see what was on the top of it. **Who acts:** large mushroom, mushroom, side · **What happens:** be, grow, look, occur, see · **To what, where:** sides, mushroom, side, top · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (large mushroom, mushroom, side), 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:pg11:5:123 # text = There was a large mushroom growing near her, about the same height as herself; and when she had looked under it, and on both sides of it, and behind it, it occurred to her that she might as well look and see what was on the top of it. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 mushroom mushroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 6 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 7 near near ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 about about ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 looked look VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 22 under under ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 28 det _ _ 28 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 33 behind behind ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 occurred occur VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ _ 40 that that SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 41 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 42 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 43 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 45 cc _ _ 44 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 43 fixed _ _ 45 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 advcl _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 conj _ _ 48 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 52 nsubj _ _ 49 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 cop _ _ 50 on on ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 ccomp _ _ 53 of of ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | a large mushroom | | | both sides of side; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location | | 2 | **grow** | gerund | a large mushroom *not said here* | | | | | near mushroom; about the same height as mushroom | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near she=Location | | 3 | **look** | past · perfect | mushroom | | | | | under height | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under it=Theme | | 4 | **occur** | past | side | | mushroom | side | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind it=Location | | 5 | **look** | might | mushroom | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **see** | infinitive | mushroom *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **is** | past | | | | the top | | of side | tree rules | 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 122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/122/) - next →: [sentence 124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/124/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV. 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