--- title: Alice glanced rather anxiously at the cook, to see if she meant to t… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Alice glanced rather anxiously at the cook, to see if she meant to take the hint; but the cook was busily stirring the soup, and seemed not to be listening, so she went on again: “Twenty-four hours, I _think_; or is it twelve? Who acts: Alice, cook, Duchess, soup. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/7/59/) [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/) / 59 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 59 Alice glanced rather anxiously at the cook, to see if she meant to take the hint; but the cook was busily stirring the soup, and seemed not to be listening, so she went on again: “Twenty-four hours, I \_think\_; or is it twelve? **Who acts:** Alice, cook, Duchess, soup · **What happens:** glance, see, mean, take, stir, seem · **To what, where:** hint, soup, four hours, twelve 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, cook, Duchess, soup), 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:pg11:7:59 # text = Alice glanced rather anxiously at the cook, to see if she meant to take the hint; but the cook was busily stirring the soup, and seemed not to be listening, so she went on again: “Twenty-four hours, I _think_; or is it twelve? 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 glanced glance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 rather rather ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 anxiously anxiously ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 11 if if SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 hint hint NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 busily busily ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 stirring stir VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 soup soup NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 aux _ _ 33 listening listen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 38 on on ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 again again ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 : : PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 41 “ " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 Twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 45 nummod _ _ 45 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 47 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 48 _ _ AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 49 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ; ; PUNCT : _ 55 punct _ _ 52 or or CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 53 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 55 cop _ _ 54 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 55 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **glance** | past | Alice | | | | | at the cook; anxiously *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cook=Theme | | 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **mean** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Alice | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | the hint | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hint=Theme | | 5 | **stir** | past · progressive | the cook | the soup | | | | busily *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soup=Experiencer | | 6 | **seem** | past | | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 7 | **not** **listen** | to-infinitive · progressive | | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **go on** | past | cook | | | | again; hour | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | | the Duchess *= duchess* | four hours *not said here* | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hour=Theme | | 10 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | soup | twelve | | | | | tree rules | 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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/7/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/7/60/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/7/)