--- title: Alice thought this a very curious thing, and she went nearer to watc… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Alice thought this a very curious thing, and she went nearer to watch them, and just as she came up to them she heard one of them say, “Look out now, Five! Who acts: Alice, one. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/2/) [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/) / 2 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 2 Alice thought this a very curious thing, and she went nearer to watch them, and just as she came up to them she heard one of them say, “Look out now, Five! **Who acts:** Alice, one · **What happens:** think, go, watch, come up, hear, say · **To what, where:** this, roses, Five · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Alice, one), 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:pg11:9:2 # text = Alice thought this a very curious thing, and she went nearer to watch them, and just as she came up to them she heard one of them say, “Look out now, Five! 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 obj _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 curious curious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 nearer near ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 xcomp _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 just just ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 22 up up ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nsubj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nmod _ _ 30 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 “ " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 Look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 34 out out ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Alice | this | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot this=Theme | | 2 | **go** | past | Alice | | | | | near *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **watch** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | roses *= rose* | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **come up** | past | Alice | | roses *= rose* | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **hear** | past | Alice | Five | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | one of roses | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **look out** *in a quote* | infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | now | | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: 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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/3/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/)