--- title: She had not gone much farther before she came in sight of the house… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: She had not gone much farther before she came in sight of the house of the March Hare: she thought it must be the right house, because the chimneys were shaped like ears and the roof was thatched with fur. Who acts: Alice, house. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Cha --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/7/139/) [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 VI. Pig and Pepper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/7/) / 139 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 139 She had not gone much farther before she came in sight of the house of the March Hare: she thought it must be the right house, because the chimneys were shaped like ears and the roof was thatched with fur. **Who acts:** Alice, house · **What happens:** not go, come, think, be, shape, thatch · **To what, where:** sight, right house, chimneys, roof, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, house), 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:pg11:7:139 # text = She had not gone much farther before she came in sight of the house of the March Hare: she thought it must be the right house, because the chimneys were shaped like ears and the roof was thatched with fur. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 much much ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 farther far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ 7 before before SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 Hare Hare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 23 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 cop _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 because because SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 chimneys chimney NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 34 like like ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 thatched thatch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 conj _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **go** | past · perfect | Alice | | | | | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **come** | past | Alice | | | sight of the house of the March Hare | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Alice | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | must | house | the right house | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **shape** | past · passive | | the chimneys | | | | like ears | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 6 | **thatch** | past · passive | | the roof | | | | with fur | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with fur=Theme | | 7 | **sight** | | | the house of the March Hare | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/7/138/) - next →: [sentence 140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/7/140/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/7/)