--- title: Seven flung down his brush, and had just begun “Well, of all the unj… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Seven flung down his brush, and had just begun “Well, of all the unjust things—” when his eye chanced to fall upon Alice, as she stood watching them, and he checked himself suddenly: the others looked round also, and all of them bowed low. Who acts: Seven, eye, business, others. A sentence of «Alice --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/12/) [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 VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/) / 12 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 12 Seven flung down his brush, and had just begun “Well, of all the unjust things—” when his eye chanced to fall upon Alice, as she stood watching them, and he checked himself suddenly: the others looked round also, and all of them bowed low. **Who acts:** Seven, eye, business, others, all · **What happens:** fling down, begin, chance, fall, stand, watch · **To what, where:** brush, Alice, roots, business 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 (Seven, eye, business, others), 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:pg11:9:12 # text = Seven flung down his brush, and had just begun “Well, of all the unjust things—” when his eye chanced to fall upon Alice, as she stood watching them, and he checked himself suddenly: the others looked round also, and all of them bowed low. 1 Seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nsubj _ _ 2 flung fling VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 down down ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 brush brush NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 just just ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 begun begin VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Well well INTJ UH _ 2 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 18 det:predet _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 unjust unjust ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 — - PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ” " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 chanced chance VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl:relcl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 upon upon ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 33 watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 xcomp _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 checked check VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 39 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 38 obj _ _ 40 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 : : PUNCT : _ 44 punct _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj _ _ 44 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 parataxis _ _ 45 round round ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 46 also also ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 49 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 52 nsubj _ _ 50 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nmod _ _ 52 bowed bow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 conj _ _ 53 low low ADV RB Degree=Pos 52 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fling down** | past | Seven | business's brush | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brush=Theme | | 2 | **begin** | past · perfect | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **chance** | participle | business's eye | | | | | | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **fall** | to-infinitive | business's eye *not said here* | | | Alice | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon alice=Location | | 5 | **stand** | past | eye | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **watch** | gerund | eye *not said here* | roots *= root* | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 7 | **check** | past | business | business | | | | suddenly *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | | 8 | **look round** | past | the others | | | | | round *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 9 | **bow** | past | all | | | | | low *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/13/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/)