--- title: Alice knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for her, and she tremble… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Alice knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for her, and she trembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting that she was now about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit, and had no reason to be afraid of it. Who acts: Alice, pattering, Rabbit. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/53/) [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/) / 53 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 53 Alice knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for her, and she trembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting that she was now about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit, and had no reason to be afraid of it. **Who acts:** Alice, pattering, Rabbit · **What happens:** know, be, come, look, tremble, shake · **To what, where:** Rabbit, house, thousand times, reason · **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 (Alice, pattering, Rabbit), 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:pg11:5:53 # text = Alice knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for her, and she trembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting that she was now about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit, and had no reason to be afraid of it. 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 7 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 trembled tremble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 till till SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 quite quite ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 forgetting forget VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 27 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 28 about about ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 as as ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 34 as as ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 40 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 41 det _ _ 41 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 43 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 44 cop _ _ 44 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 acl _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | past | Alice | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is a** | past | pattering | the Rabbit | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **come** | gerund | the Rabbit *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | the Rabbit *not said here* | | | | | for Alice | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for she=Theme | | 5 | **tremble** | past | Alice | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **shake** | past | Alice | the house | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent house=Patient | | 7 | **forget** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **is a** | past | Alice | thousand times | | | now | | tree rules | | 9 | **have** | past | | no reason | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | | 10 | **is** | to-infinitive | | no reason *not said here* | | | | of pattering; afraid *property* | 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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/54/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/)