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title: Alice laughed so much at this, that she had to run back into the woo… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice laughed so much at this, that she had to run back into the wood for fear of their hearing her; and when she next peeped out the Fish-Footman was gone, and the other was sitting on the ground near the door, staring stupidly up into the sky. Who acts: Alice, Fish Footman, other, fear. A sentence
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 9

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Alice laughed so much at this, that she had to run back into the wood for fear of their hearing her; and when she next peeped out the Fish-Footman was gone, and the other was sitting on the ground near the door, staring stupidly up into the sky.

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**Who acts:** Alice, Fish Footman, other, fear · **What happens:** laugh, have, run back, be, sit, stare · **To what, where:** this, wood, ground

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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, Fish Footman, other, fear), 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:pg11:7:9
# text = Alice laughed so much at this, that she had to run back into the wood for fear of their hearing her; and when she next peeped out the Fish-Footman was gone, and the other was sitting on the ground near the door, staring stupidly up into the sky.
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	next	next	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	peeped	peep	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	Fish	Fish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Footman	Footman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	conj	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	near	near	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	advcl	_	_
50	stupidly	stupidly	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	up	up	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
52	into	into	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | Alice |  |  | this |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **run back** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the wood *result*; for fear and fear's hearing | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result |
| 4 | **is** | past | the Fish Footman |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sit** | past · progressive | the other |  |  | the ground |  | near the door | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location |
| 6 | **stare** | gerund | the other *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the sky | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into sky=Theme |
| 7 | **hear** |  | fear |  |  |  |  |  | nom hearing «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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