--- title: Here the Dormouse shook itself, and began singing in its sleep “_Twi… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Here the Dormouse shook itself, and began singing in its sleep “_Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle_—” and went on so long that they had to pinch it to make it stop. Who acts: Dormouse, Twinkle, head. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/79/) [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 VII. A Mad Tea-Party](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/) / 79 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 79 Here the Dormouse shook itself, and began singing in its sleep “\_Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle\_—” and went on so long that they had to pinch it to make it stop. **Who acts:** Dormouse, Twinkle, head · **What happens:** shake, begin, sing, go on, have, pinch · **To what, where:** head, Twinkle, sleep 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 (Dormouse, Twinkle, head), 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:pg11:8:79 # text = Here the Dormouse shook itself, and began singing in its sleep “_Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle_—” and went on so long that they had to pinch it to make it stop. 1 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Dormouse Dormouse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 9 singing sing VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 xcomp _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Twinkle twinkle NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 twinkle twinkle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 twinkle twinkle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 twinkle twinkle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 — - PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 on on ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 pinch pinch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 advcl _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shake** | past | the Dormouse | head | | here | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent itself=Patient | | 2 | **begin** | past | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | | Twinkle and twinkle and twinkle and twinkle | | head's sleep | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sleep=Location | | 4 | **go on** | past | the Dormouse *not said here* | | | | | long *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **have** | past | Twinkle | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **pinch** | to-infinitive | Twinkle *not said here* | head | | | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 7 | **make** | to-infinitive | Twinkle *not said here* | head | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **stop** | infinitive | head *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 9 | **sleep** | | head | | | | | | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/80/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VII. 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