Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 112

After a while she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to work very carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual height.

Who acts: Alice · What happens: remember, hold, set, work, nibble, grow · To what, where: pieces, hands, Alice, usual height · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 while	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remembered	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 remembered	nsubj
5	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 held	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 held	nsubj
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 held	advmod
9	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remembered	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pieces	det
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 held	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 mushroom	case
13	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pieces	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 hands	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hands	nmod:poss
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 held	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 set	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 set	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 set	nsubj
20	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remembered	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 work	mark
22	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 set	xcomp
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 carefully	advmod
24	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	22 work	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 nibbling	punct
26	nibbling	nibble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 set	conj
27	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 nibbling	advmod
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 one	case
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 nibbling	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 other	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 other	advmod
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 other	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 other	det
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 one	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 taller	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 taller	cc
37	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 taller	csubj
38	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	39 taller	advmod
39	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 remembered	parataxis
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 shorter	cc
41	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	42 shorter	advmod
42	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 taller	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 succeeded	punct
44	until	until	SCONJ	_	47 succeeded	mark
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 succeeded	nsubj
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 succeeded	aux
47	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 remembered	parataxis
48	in	in	SCONJ	_	49 bringing	mark
49	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 succeeded	advcl
50	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	49 bringing	obj
51	down	down	ADP	_	49 bringing	compound:prt
52	to	to	ADP	_	55 height	case
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 height	nmod:poss
54	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 height	amod
55	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 bringing	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past	Alice			while		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hold	past	Alice	the pieces of mushroom	Alice's hands	still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent piece=Theme in hand=Location
3	set	past	Alice					tree rules
4	work	to-infinitive	Alice not said here				carefully property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	nibble	gerund	Alice not said here				at one; first property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at one=Patient
6	grow	gerund						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	succeed	past · perfect	Alice					vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	bring down	gerund	Alice not said here	Alice	Alice's usual height			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme to height=Destination

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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