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title: By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought it back, the fig… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought it back, the fight was over, and both the hedgehogs were out of sight: “but it doesn’t matter much,” thought Alice, “as all the arches are gone from this side of the ground.” Who acts: fight, hedgehogs, it, Alice. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures 
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 104

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By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought it back, the fight was over, and both the hedgehogs were out of sight: “but it doesn’t matter much,” thought Alice, “as all the arches are gone from this side of the ground.”

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**Who acts:** fight, hedgehogs, it, Alice, arches · **What happens:** catch, bring back, be, not matter, think · **To what, where:** Alice, flamingo, sight, side · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fight, hedgehogs, it, 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:pg11:9:104
# text = By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought it back, the fight was over, and both the hedgehogs were out of sight: “but it doesn’t matter much,” thought Alice, “as all the arches are gone from this side of the ground.”
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	flamingo	flamingo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	over	over	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	ccomp	_	_
34	much	much	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
37	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
38	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
40	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	44	det:predet	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	arches	arch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
45	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
46	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	conj	_	_
47	from	from	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	49	det	_	_
49	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past · perfect · passive |  | Alice |  |  | time |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary flamingo=Theme |
| 2 | **bring back** | past |  | flamingo |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the fight |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | both hedgehogs |  |  | sight |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **matter** *in a quote* | present · do-support | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | all arches |  |  | this side of the ground |  | go *property* | tree rules |

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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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