--- title: (a loud crash)—“Now, who did that?—It was Bill, I fancy—Who’s to go… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: (a loud crash)—“Now, who did that?—It was Bill, I fancy—Who’s to go down the chimney?—Nay, _I_ shan’t! Who acts: loud crash, crash, Alice. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/84/) [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/) / 84 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 84 (a loud crash)—“Now, who did that?—It was Bill, I fancy—Who’s to go down the chimney?—Nay, \_I\_ shan’t! **Who acts:** loud crash, crash, Alice · **What happens:** not do, be, fancy, go down · **To what, where:** that, Bill, chimney 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 (loud crash, crash, 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:pg11:5:84 # text = (a loud crash)—“Now, who did that?—It was Bill, I fancy—Who’s to go down the chimney?—Nay, _I_ shan’t! 1 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 crash crash NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 — - PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 “ " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 — - PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 Bill Bill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 fancy fancy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 21 — - PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 down down ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 chimney chimney NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ? ? PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 — - PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 Nay nay INTJ UH _ 17 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 33 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 11 punct _ _ 36 sha sha X FW _ 37 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 37 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ! ! PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | past | a loud crash | that | | | now | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | crash | Bill | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fancy** *in a quote* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **go down** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | the chimney | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient chimney=Extent | 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 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/83/) - next →: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/85/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/)