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title: Then she went to work nibbling at the mushroom (she had kept a piece… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she went to work nibbling at the mushroom (she had kept a piece of it in her pocket) till she was about a foot high: then she walked down the little passage: and _then_—she found herself at last in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool fountains. Who acts: Alice. A sen
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 154

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Then she went to work nibbling at the mushroom (she had kept a piece of it in her pocket) till she was about a foot high: then she walked down the little passage: and \_then\_—she found herself at last in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool fountains.

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**Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** go, work, nibble, keep, be, walk down · **To what, where:** piece, pocket, foot, little passage, Alice, last

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice), 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:pg11:8:154
# text = Then she went to work nibbling at the mushroom (she had kept a piece of it in her pocket) till she was about a foot high: then she walked down the little passage: and _then_—she found herself at last in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool fountains.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	nibbling	nibble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
22	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
28	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
30	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	down	down	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
45	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	44	obj	_	_
46	at	at	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	obl	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
53	among	among	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
55	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
56	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
61	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Alice |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **work** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **nibble** | gerund | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the mushroom | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at mushroom=Patient |
| 4 | **keep** | past · perfect | Alice | a piece of piece |  | Alice's pocket |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent piece=Theme in pocket=Location |
| 5 | **is a** | past | Alice | a foot |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **walk down** | past | Alice | the little passage |  |  | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme passage=Trajectory |
| 7 | **find** | past | Alice | Alice |  | last |  | in the beautiful garden; among the bright flower beds and the cool fountains | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent herself=Theme at last=Asset |

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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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