--- title: By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room with a ta… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room with a table in the window, and on it (as she had hoped) a fan and two or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves: she took up the fan and a pair of the gloves, and was just going to leave the room, when her eye fell upon a little bottle that s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/24/) [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/) / 24 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 24 By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room with a table in the window, and on it (as she had hoped) a fan and two or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves: she took up the fan and a pair of the gloves, and was just going to leave the room, when her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-glass. **Who acts:** Alice, eye, little bottle · **What happens:** find, hope, take up, go, leave, fall · **To what, where:** way, tidy little room, fan, room, little bottle, looking glass 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, eye, little bottle), 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:pg11:5:24 # text = By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room with a table in the window, and on it (as she had hoped) a fan and two or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves: she took up the fan and a pair of the gloves, and was just going to leave the room, when her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-glass. 1 By by ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 tidy tidy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 hoped hope VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 fan fan NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 34 or or CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 conj _ _ 36 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 39 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 gloves glove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 : : PUNCT : _ 44 punct _ _ 43 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 45 up up ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 fan fan NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 conj _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 gloves glove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 56 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 58 aux _ _ 57 just just ADV RB _ 58 advmod _ _ 58 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 44 conj _ _ 59 to to PART TO _ 60 mark _ _ 60 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 58 xcomp _ _ 61 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 62 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 63 , , PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ _ 64 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 67 advmod _ _ 65 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 66 nmod:poss _ _ 66 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 nsubj _ _ 67 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 conj _ _ 68 upon upon ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 69 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 71 det _ _ 70 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 71 amod _ _ 71 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 obl _ _ 72 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 73 nsubj _ _ 73 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 71 acl:relcl _ _ 74 near near ADP IN _ 78 case _ _ 75 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 78 det _ _ 76 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 78 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 77 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 76 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 78 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 79 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past · perfect | Alice | Alice's way | | a tidy little room with a table in the window | time | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | | 2 | **hope** | past · perfect | Alice | a fan and two pairs of tiny white kid gloves | | | | on mouse | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **take up** | past | Alice | the fan and a pair of the gloves | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fan=Theme | | 4 | **go** | past · progressive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **leave** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | the room | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | | 6 | **fall** | past | Alice's eye | | | a little bottle | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon bottle=Location | | 7 | **stand** | past | a little bottle | | | the looking glass | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near glass=Location | | 8 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/25/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/)