---
title: She went in without knocking, and hurried upstairs, in great fear le… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: She went in without knocking, and hurried upstairs, in great fear lest she should meet the real Mary Ann, and be turned out of the house before she had found the fan and gloves. Who acts: Alice. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Litt
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/16/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 16

# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 16

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She went in without knocking, and hurried upstairs, in great fear lest she should meet the real Mary Ann, and be turned out of the house before she had found the fan and gloves.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** go in, knock, hurry, meet, turn out, find · **To what, where:** real Mary, house, fan

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Alice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg11:5:16
# text = She went in without knocking, and hurried upstairs, in great fear lest she should meet the real Mary Ann, and be turned out of the house before she had found the fan and gloves.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	knocking	knock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	Ann	Ann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	fan	fan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go in** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **knock** | gerund | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **hurry** | past |  |  |  |  |  | upstairs *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **meet** | should | Alice | the real Mary |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mary=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **turn out** | infinitive · passive |  | the house |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: house=Theme |
| 6 | **find** | past · perfect | Alice | the fan and gloves |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fan=Topic |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/15/)
- next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/17/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/)