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title: Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute, tr… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute, trying to make out which were the two sides of it; and as it was perfectly round, she found this a very difficult question. Who acts: Alice, mushroom. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advic
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 67

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Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute, trying to make out which were the two sides of it; and as it was perfectly round, she found this a very difficult question.

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**Who acts:** Alice, mushroom · **What happens:** remain, look, try, make out, be, find · **To what, where:** two sides, this

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, mushroom), 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:pg11:6:67
# text = Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute, trying to make out which were the two sides of it; and as it was perfectly round, she found this a very difficult question.
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	thoughtfully	thoughtfully	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
33	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	obj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	very	very	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the mushroom for a minute; thoughtfully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at mushroom=Theme |
| 3 | **try** | gerund | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **make out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | the two sides |  |  |  | of mushroom | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | mushroom |  |  |  |  | perfectly, round *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **find** | past | Alice | this |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent this=Theme question=Attribute |

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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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