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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 1

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For a minute or two she stood looking at the house, and wondering what to do next, when suddenly a footman in livery came running out of the wood—(she considered him to be a footman because he was in livery: otherwise, judging by his face only, she would have called him a fish)—and rapped loudly at the door with his knuckles.

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**Who acts:** she, footman, he · **What happens:** stand, look, wonder, do, come, run · **To what, where:** wood, him, footman, livery · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (she, footman, he), 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:pg11:7:1
# text = For a minute or two she stood looking at the house, and wondering what to do next, when suddenly a footman in livery came running out of the wood—(she considered him to be a footman because he was in livery: otherwise, judging by his face only, she would have called him a fish)—and rapped loudly at the door with his knuckles.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	advcl	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	next	next	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
21	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	footman	footman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	livery	livery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
27	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	considered	consider	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	cop	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	footman	footman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	xcomp	_	_
41	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	livery	livery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
47	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	judging	judge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	conj	_	_
50	by	by	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
53	only	only	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj:pass	_	_
56	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
57	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	aux	_	_
58	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
59	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	obj	_	_
60	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	65	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
65	rapped	rap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
66	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	65	advmod	_	_
67	at	at	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
68	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
69	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	obl	_	_
70	with	with	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
71	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	72	nmod:poss	_	_
72	knuckles	knuckle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | she |  |  |  | minute |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the house | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at house=Theme |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 5 | **come** | past | a footman in livery |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **run** | gerund | a footman in livery *not said here* |  |  | the wood |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out wood=Trajectory |
| 7 | **consider** | past | footman | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute |
| 8 | **is a** | to-infinitive | footman *not said here* | a footman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **is** | past | he |  |  | livery |  | otherwise *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **judge** | gerund | footman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by his face | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **call** | would · perfect · passive |  | footman |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme he=Result |
| 12 | **rap** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with fish's knuckles; at the door; loudly *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient with knuckle=Instrument |

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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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