Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 111

Alice crouched down among the trees as well as she could, for her neck kept getting entangled among the branches, and every now and then she had to stop and untwist it.

Who acts: Alice, neck · What happens: crouch down, keep, get, entangle, have, stop · To what, where: trees, tone

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, neck), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 crouched	nsubj
2	crouched	crouch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 crouched	advmod
4	among	among	ADP	_	6 trees	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trees	det
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crouched	obl
7	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	11 could	cc
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 as	fixed
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 could	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 could	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 crouched	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 kept	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 kept	mark
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 neck	nmod:poss
15	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kept	nsubj
16	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crouched	conj
17	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 kept	xcomp
18	entangled	entangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 getting	xcomp
19	among	among	ADP	_	21 branches	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 branches	det
21	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 entangled	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 every	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 every	cc
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 crouched	conj
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 every	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 had	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 had	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 now	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 stop	mark
31	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 had	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 untwist	cc
33	untwist	untwist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 stop	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 untwist	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 crouched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crouch down	past	Alice		the trees		down property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tree=Location
2	keep	past	Alice's neck					tree rules
3	get	gerund	Alice's neck not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	entangle	participle	Alice's neck not said here				among the branches	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	have	past	Alice			then		tree rules
6	stop	to-infinitive	Alice not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	untwist	infinitive	Alice not said here	tone				tree rules

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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