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title: Alice waited a little, half expecting to see it again, but it did no… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice waited a little, half expecting to see it again, but it did not appear, and after a minute or two she walked on in the direction in which the March Hare was said to live. Who acts: Alice, it. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, with it
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 130

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Alice waited a little, half expecting to see it again, but it did not appear, and after a minute or two she walked on in the direction in which the March Hare was said to live.

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**Who acts:** Alice, it · **What happens:** wait, expect, see, not appear, walk on, say · **To what, where:** little, Hare, direction, March Hare · **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 (Alice, it), 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:pg11:7:130
# text = Alice waited a little, half expecting to see it again, but it did not appear, and after a minute or two she walked on in the direction in which the March Hare was said to live.
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	7	det:predet	_	_
7	expecting	expect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	conj	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl:relcl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	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 | Alice | a little |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **expect** | gerund | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | Hare |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **appear** | past · do-support | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **walk on** | past | Alice |  |  | the direction | minute |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | the March Hare |  | the direction |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **live** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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