--- title: Alice began to feel very uneasy: to be sure, she had not as yet had… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Alice began to feel very uneasy: to be sure, she had not as yet had any dispute with the Queen, but she knew that it might happen any minute, “and then,” thought she, “what would become of me? Who acts: Alice, it. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VIII. The Q --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/75/) [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/) / 75 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 75 Alice began to feel very uneasy: to be sure, she had not as yet had any dispute with the Queen, but she knew that it might happen any minute, “and then,” thought she, “what would become of me? **Who acts:** Alice, it · **What happens:** begin, feel, be, have, not have, know · **To what, where:** dispute · **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, it), 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:pg11:9:75 # text = Alice began to feel very uneasy: to be sure, she had not as yet had any dispute with the Queen, but she knew that it might happen any minute, “and then,” thought she, “what would become of me? 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 uneasy uneasy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 cop _ _ 10 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 15 as as ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 yet yet ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 18 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 19 det _ _ 19 dispute dispute NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ _ 31 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 32 det _ _ 32 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 “ " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 36 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ” " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 39 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 40 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 “ " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 45 nsubj _ _ 44 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 ccomp _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | Alice | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **feel** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | uneasy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | past | Alice | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **have** | past | Alice *not said here* | any dispute | | | yet | with the Queen | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dispute=Patient | | 6 | **know** | past | Alice | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **happen** | might | it | | | | minute | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **think** *speech: other* | past | | | | | then | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 9 | **become** *in a quote* | would | Alice | | | | | of me | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/76/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VIII. 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