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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 8

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Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she went hunting about, and called out to her in an angry tone, “Why, Mary Ann, what \_are\_ you doing out here?

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, Alice, Mary · **What happens:** notice, go, hunt, call out, do out · **To what, where:** Alice, angry tone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Rabbit, Alice, Mary), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg11:5:8
# text = Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she went hunting about, and called out to her in an angry tone, “Why, Mary Ann, what _are_ you doing out here?
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
28	Ann	Ann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	35	obj	_	_
31	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	35	punct	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | past | the Rabbit | Alice |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **hunt** | gerund | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  | Alice | a angry tone |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
| 5 | **do out** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Mary |  |  | here |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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.

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**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.

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