--- title: Next came the guests, mostly Kings and Queens, and among them Alice… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Next came the guests, mostly Kings and Queens, and among them Alice recognised the White Rabbit: it was talking in a hurried nervous manner, smiling at everything that was said, and went by without noticing her. Who acts: guests, Alice, Rabbit. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lew --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/21/) [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/) / 21 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 21 Next came the guests, mostly Kings and Queens, and among them Alice recognised the White Rabbit: it was talking in a hurried nervous manner, smiling at everything that was said, and went by without noticing her. **Who acts:** guests, Alice, Rabbit · **What happens:** come, recognise, talk, hurry, smile, say · **To what, where:** White Rabbit, hurried nervous manner, everything, Alice · **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 (guests, Alice, Rabbit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg11:552`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11:9:21 # text = Next came the guests, mostly Kings and Queens, and among them Alice recognised the White Rabbit: it was talking in a hurried nervous manner, smiling at everything that was said, and went by without noticing her. 1 Next next ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 guests guest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 Kings king NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 appos _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 Queens queen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 among among ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 14 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 recognised recognise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 White white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 Rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 parataxis _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 hurried hurry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 26 nervous nervous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 manner manner NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 smiling smile VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 29 obl _ _ 32 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl:relcl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 38 by by ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 without without SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 40 noticing notice VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 advcl _ _ 41 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the guests | | | | | next *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **recognise** | past | Alice | the White Rabbit | | | | among guests *= guest* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rabbit=Stimulus | | 3 | **talk** | past · progressive | Rabbit | | | a hurried nervous manner | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hurry** | participle | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **smile** | gerund | Rabbit *not said here* | | | everything | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | | 7 | **go by** | past | Rabbit *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **notice** | gerund | Rabbit *not said here* | Alice | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/22/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VIII. 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