Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 28

It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had expected: before she had drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing against the ceiling, and had to stoop to save her neck from being broken.

Who acts: bottle, thing, head · What happens: do, expect, drink, find, press, have · To what, where: thing, bottle, head, neck

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bottle, thing, head), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 indeed	advmod
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 did	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 expected	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 expected	cc
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 sooner	advmod
8	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 expected	advmod
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 expected	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 expected	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 expected	aux
12	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 did	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 drunk	punct
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 drunk	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 drunk	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 drunk	aux
17	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 did	conj
18	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	20 bottle	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bottle	det
20	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drunk	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 found	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 found	nsubj
23	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 drunk	parataxis
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 found	obj
26	pressing	press	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 head	acl
27	against	against	ADP	_	29 ceiling	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ceiling	det
29	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pressing	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 had	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 had	cc
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 found	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 stoop	mark
34	stoop	stoop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 had	xcomp
35	to	to	PART	_	36 save	mark
36	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 stoop	xcomp
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 neck	nmod:poss
38	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 save	obj
39	from	from	SCONJ	_	41 broken	mark
40	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 broken	aux:pass
41	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 save	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	bottle		indeed property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	expect	past · perfect · passive		thing	soon property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	drink	past · perfect	thing	half bottle		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient
4	find	past	thing	thing's head		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic
5	press	gerund	thing's head not said here		against the ceiling	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against ceiling=Theme
6	have	past	thing not said here			tree rules
7	stoop	to-infinitive	thing not said here			tree rules
8	save	to-infinitive	thing not said here	thing's neck		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Theme
9	break	gerund · passive	thing not said here			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»

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.

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