Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 120

So she began nibbling at the righthand bit again, and did not venture to go near the house till she had brought herself down to nine inches high.

Who acts: Alice · What happens: begin, nibble, not venture, go, bring down · To what, where: house, Alice

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	So	so	ADV	_	3 began	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nibbling	nibble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 began	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 bit	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bit	det
7	righthand	righthand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bit	compound
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nibbling	obl
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 bit	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 venture	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 venture	cc
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 venture	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 venture	advmod
14	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 go	mark
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 venture	xcomp
17	near	near	ADP	_	19 house	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 house	det
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
20	till	till	SCONJ	_	23 brought	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 brought	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 brought	aux
23	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 go	advcl
24	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 brought	obj
25	down	down	ADP	_	23 brought	compound:prt
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 nine	case
27	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 inches	nummod
28	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 high	obl:unmarked
29	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 brought	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Alice				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	nibble	gerund	Alice not said here			at the righthand bit	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at bit=Patient
3	not venture	past · do-support	Alice not said here				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	to-infinitive	Alice not said here		the house		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near house=Location
5	bring down	past · perfect	Alice	Alice			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent herself=Theme

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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