Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 61

In a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and yawned once or twice, and shook itself.

Who acts: Caterpillar · What happens: take, yawn, shake · To what, where: hookah, mouth

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 (Caterpillar), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 minute	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 minute	det
3	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obl
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 two	cc
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 minute	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Caterpillar	det
7	Caterpillar	Caterpillar	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 took	nsubj
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hookah	det
10	hookah	hookah	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	14 mouth	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 mouth	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mouth	nmod:poss
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 yawned	cc
16	yawned	yawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 took	conj
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 yawned	advmod
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 twice	cc
19	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 once	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 shook	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shook	cc
22	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 took	conj
23	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 shook	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the Caterpillar	the hookah	hookah's mouth	minute		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent hookah=Theme out mouth=Initial_Location
2	yawn	past	the Caterpillar not said here				once property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	shake	past	the Caterpillar not said here	hookah				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent itself=Patient

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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