--- title: She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but she f… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but she felt that there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking rapidly; so she set to work at once to eat some of the other bit. Who acts: Alice, time. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/70/) [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 V. Advice from a Caterpillar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/) / 70 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 70 She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but she felt that there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking rapidly; so she set to work at once to eat some of the other bit. **Who acts:** Alice, time · **What happens:** be, frighten, feel, lose, shrink, set · **To what, where:** good deal, some 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, time), 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:pg11:6:70 # text = She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but she felt that there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking rapidly; so she set to work at once to eat some of the other bit. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 det _ _ 9 very very ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 18 expl _ _ 18 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 20 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 shrinking shrink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 29 rapidly rapidly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 35 obl _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 40 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 39 obj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Alice | a good deal | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **frighten** | participle | | a good deal *not said here* | | | | by this sudden change | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **feel** | past | Alice | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **be** | past | no time | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **lose** | to-infinitive · passive | no time *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» | | 6 | **shrink** | past · progressive | Alice | | | | | rapidly *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **set** | past | Alice | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **work** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at once=Theme | | 9 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | some | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient | 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 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/71/) - ↑ back to [Chapter V. 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