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The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 7 Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking for the fan and the pair of white kid gloves, and she very good-naturedly began hunting about for them, but they were nowhere to be seen—everything seemed to have changed since her swim in the pool, and the great hall, with the glass table and the little door, had vanished completely. **Who acts:** Alice, Rabbit, everything, great hall · **What happens:** guess, look, begin, hunt, see, seem · **To what, where:** gloves, pool 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, Rabbit, everything, great hall), 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:pg11:5:7 # text = Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking for the fan and the pair of white kid gloves, and she very good-naturedly began hunting about for them, but they were nowhere to be seen—everything seemed to have changed since her swim in the pool, and the great hall, with the glass table and the little door, had vanished completely. 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 guessed guess VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 fan fan NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 gloves glove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 23 very very ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 naturedly naturedly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 28 hunting hunt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 xcomp _ _ 29 about about ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 35 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux:pass _ _ 36 nowhere nowhere ADV RB PronType=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 — - PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 42 nsubj _ _ 42 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 44 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 45 aux _ _ 45 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 42 xcomp _ _ 46 since since ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 swim swim NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 49 in in ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 68 cc _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 55 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 58 with with ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 60 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 compound _ _ 61 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 conj _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 65 cc _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 64 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 65 amod _ _ 65 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 66 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 67 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 68 aux _ _ 68 vanished vanish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 42 conj _ _ 69 completely completely ADV RB _ 68 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 70 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **guess** | past | Alice | | | | moment | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **look** | past · progressive | Rabbit | | | | | for the fan and the pair of white kid gloves | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for fan=Theme | | 3 | **begin** | past | Alice | | | | | naturedly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **hunt** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | | | | | for gloves *= glove*; about *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for they=Theme | | 5 | **see** | past · passive | | gloves *= glove* | | | | nowhere *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 6 | **seem** | past | everything | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 7 | **change** | to-infinitive · perfect | everything *not said here* | | | | since Alice's swim in the pool | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **vanish** | past · perfect | the great hall and the glass table and the little door | | | | | completely *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **swim** | | Alice | | | the pool | | | nom swim «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place | 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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/8/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/)