--- title: Still she went on growing, and, as a last resource, she put one arm… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Still she went on growing, and, as a last resource, she put one arm out of the window, and one foot up the chimney, and said to herself “Now I can do no more, whatever happens. Who acts: thing, whatever. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/32/) [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/) / 32 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 32 Still she went on growing, and, as a last resource, she put one arm out of the window, and one foot up the chimney, and said to herself “Now I can do no more, whatever happens. **Who acts:** thing, whatever · **What happens:** go, grow, put, say, do, happen · **To what, where:** one foot, one arm, window, thing, more · **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 (thing, whatever), 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:pg11:5:32 # text = Still she went on growing, and, as a last resource, she put one arm out of the window, and one foot up the chimney, and said to herself “Now I can do no more, whatever happens. 1 Still still ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 growing grow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 resource resource NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 out out ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 26 up up ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 chimney chimney NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 31 obl _ _ 34 “ " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 38 advmod _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 39 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 40 det _ _ 40 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 43 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | thing | one foot up the chimney | | | still | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **grow** | gerund | thing *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **put** | past | thing | one arm | | the window | | as a last resource | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arm=Theme out window=Destination | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | thing *not said here* | | thing | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | can | thing | no more | | | now | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality | | 6 | **happen** *in a quote* | present | whatever | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/33/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/)