Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 113

It was so long since she had been anything near the right size, that it felt quite strange at first; but she got used to it in a few minutes, and began talking to herself, as usual.

Who acts: mushroom, Alice · What happens: be, feel, use, begin, talk · To what, where: right size, Alice, mushroom

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 (mushroom, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 long	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	since	since	ADP	_	9 anything	case
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 anything	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 anything	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 anything	cop
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 long	obl
10	near	near	ADP	_	13 size	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 size	det
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 size	amod
13	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 anything	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 felt	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 felt	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 felt	nsubj
17	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	conj
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 strange	advmod
19	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 felt	xcomp
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 first	case
21	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 strange	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 used	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 used	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 used	nsubj
25	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 used	aux:pass
26	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 felt	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 used	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 minutes	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 minutes	det
31	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 minutes	amod
32	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 used	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 began	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 began	cc
35	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 felt	conj
36	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 began	xcomp
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 herself	case
38	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 talking	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 usual	punct
40	as	as	ADP	_	41 usual	case
41	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 began	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	mushroom					long property	tree rules
2	is	past · perfect	Alice			the right size	since anything		tree rules
3	feel	past	mushroom					strange property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	use	past · passive		Alice	mushroom		minute		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	begin	past	mushroom not said here					as usual	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	talk	gerund	mushroom not said here		Alice				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to herself=Co-Agent

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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