--- title: “_That_ you won’t!” thought Alice, and, after waiting till she fanci… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “_That_ you won’t!” thought Alice, and, after waiting till she fancied she heard the Rabbit just under the window, she suddenly spread out her hand, and made a snatch in the air. Who acts: Alice. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Lit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/56/) [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/) / 56 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 56 “\_That\_ you won’t!” thought Alice, and, after waiting till she fancied she heard the Rabbit just under the window, she suddenly spread out her hand, and made a snatch in the air. **Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** think, wait, fancy, hear, spread out, make · **To what, where:** Rabbit, window, hand, snatch, air 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. **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:pg11:5:56 # text = “_That_ you won’t!” thought Alice, and, after waiting till she fancied she heard the Rabbit just under the window, she suddenly spread out her hand, and made a snatch in the air. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 3 punct _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 7 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 10 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 after after SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 17 till till SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 fancied fancy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 just just ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 under under ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 32 out out ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 snatch snatch NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | future | Alice | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **wait** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fancy** | past | Alice | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **hear** | past | Alice | the Rabbit | | the window | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rabbit=Stimulus | | 5 | **spread out** | past | Alice | Alice's hand | | | | suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | | 6 | **make** | past | Alice *not said here* | a snatch | | the air | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset snatch=Product | 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 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/57/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV. 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