--- title: Alice was just beginning to think to herself, “Now, what am I to do… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Alice was just beginning to think to herself, “Now, what am I to do with this creature when I get it home?” when it grunted again, so violently, that she looked down into its face in some alarm. Who acts: Alice, mind. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VI. Pig --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/7/87/) [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/) / 87 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 87 Alice was just beginning to think to herself, “Now, what am I to do with this creature when I get it home?” when it grunted again, so violently, that she looked down into its face in some alarm. **Who acts:** Alice, mind · **What happens:** begin, think, do, get, grunt, look down · **To what, where:** Alice, mind · **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, mind), 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:pg11:7:87 # text = Alice was just beginning to think to herself, “Now, what am I to do with this creature when I get it home?” when it grunted again, so violently, that she looked down into its face in some alarm. 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 just just ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 beginning begin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 17 obj _ _ 14 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 det _ _ 20 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 home home ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ? ? PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ” " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 28 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 grunted grunt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 31 again again ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 violently violently ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 39 down down ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 into into ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 45 det _ _ 45 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past · progressive | Alice | | | | | violently *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | Alice | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **do** *in a quote* | present | Alice | | | | now | with this creature | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 4 | **get** *in a quote* | present | Alice | mind | | | | home *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 5 | **grunt** | past | mind | | | | again | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **look down** | past | Alice | | | | | into mind's face in some alarm; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme | 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 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/7/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/7/88/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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