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title: She waited for some time without hearing anything more: at last came… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: She waited for some time without hearing anything more: at last came a rumbling of little cartwheels, and the sound of a good many voices all talking together: she made out the words: “Where’s the other ladder?—Why, I hadn’t to bring but one; Bill’s got the other—Bill! fetch it here, lad!—Here, put 
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 82

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She waited for some time without hearing anything more: at last came a rumbling of little cartwheels, and the sound of a good many voices all talking together: she made out the words: “Where’s the other ladder?—Why, I hadn’t to bring but one; Bill’s got the other—Bill! fetch it here, lad!—Here, put ’em up at this corner—No, tie ’em together first—they don’t reach half high enough yet—Oh! they’ll do well enough; don’t be particular—Here, Bill! catch hold of this rope—Will the roof bear?—Mind that loose slate—Oh, it’s coming down!

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**Who acts:** number, rumbling, sound, Alice, Bill ’s, Bill · **What happens:** wait, hear, come, talk, make out, not have · **To what, where:** anything, last, words, other, ladder, ’em

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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 (number, rumbling, sound, Alice), 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:pg11:5:82
# text = She waited for some time without hearing anything more: at last came a rumbling of little cartwheels, and the sound of a good many voices all talking together: she made out the words: “Where’s the other ladder?—Why, I hadn’t to bring but one; Bill’s got the other—Bill! fetch it here, lad!—Here, put ’em up at this corner—No, tie ’em together first—they don’t reach half high enough yet—Oh! they’ll do well enough; don’t be particular—Here, Bill! catch hold of this rope—Will the roof bear?—Mind that loose slate—Oh, it’s coming down!
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rumbling	rumbling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	cartwheels	cartwheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
28	all	all	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
30	together	together	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
38	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	xcomp	_	_
53	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	58	punct	_	_
56	Bill	Bill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	’s	'	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	nsubj	_	_
58	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	62	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	Bill	Bill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	62	punct	_	_
64	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
65	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	obj	_	_
66	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	64	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
68	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	73	punct	_	_
73	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
74	’em	'em	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	obj	_	_
75	up	up	ADP	RP	_	73	compound:prt	_	_
76	at	at	ADP	IN	_	78	case	_	_
77	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	78	det	_	_
78	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
79	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
80	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	83	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
81	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	80	punct	_	_
82	tie	tie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	83	compound	_	_
83	’em	'em	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
84	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
85	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
86	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	90	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
87	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	90	nsubj	_	_
88	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	90	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
89	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	90	advmod	_	_
90	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
91	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	90	obj	_	_
92	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	91	amod	_	_
93	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	92	advmod	_	_
94	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	90	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
95	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
96	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	100	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
97	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	96	punct	_	_
98	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	100	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
99	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	100	aux	_	_
100	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
101	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	100	advmod	_	_
102	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	100	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
103	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	107	punct	_	_
104	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	107	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
105	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	107	advmod	_	_
106	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	107	cop	_	_
107	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
108	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	109	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
109	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	107	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
110	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	111	punct	_	_
111	Bill	Bill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	107	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
112	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	114	punct	_	_
113	catch	catch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	114	compound	_	_
114	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	111	appos	_	_
115	of	of	ADP	IN	_	117	case	_	_
116	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	117	det	_	_
117	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	114	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
118	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	122	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
119	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	122	aux	_	_
120	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	122	det	_	_
121	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	122	compound	_	_
122	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
123	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	122	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
124	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	125	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
125	Mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	122	appos	_	_
126	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	128	nsubj	_	_
127	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	128	amod	_	_
128	slate	slate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	125	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
129	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
130	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	134	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
131	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	130	punct	_	_
132	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	134	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
133	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	134	aux	_	_
134	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
135	down	down	ADV	RB	_	134	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
136	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | number |  |  | here | time | first, together *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | gerund | number *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | past | a rumbling of little cartwheels |  |  | last |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
| 4 | **talk** | gerund | the sound of a good many voices |  |  |  |  | all, together *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make out** | past | rumbling | the words |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 6 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **bring** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **get** *in a quote* | past | Bill ’s | the other |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer other=Stimulus |
| 9 | **fetch** *in a quote* | infinitive | Bill | ladder |  | here |  | lad *vocative* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 10 | **put up** *in a quote* | infinitive | number *not said here* | ’em |  | this corner |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent 'em=Theme at corner=Destination |
| 11 | **not** **reach** *in a quote* | present · do-support | ’s *= '* | half |  |  | yet |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent half=Theme |
| 12 | **do** *in a quote* | future | ’s *= '* |  |  |  |  | enough, well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 13 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | number *not said here* |  |  | here |  | Bill *obl*; particular *property* | tree rules |
| 14 | **slate** *in a quote* |  | Mind |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 15 | **come down** *in a quote* | present · progressive | half |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 16 | **rumble** |  | little cartwheels |  |  |  |  |  | nom rumbling «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 17 | **hold** *in a quote* |  |  | this rope |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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