Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 68

However, at last she stretched her arms round it as far as they would go, and broke off a bit of the edge with each hand.

Who acts: Alice, arms · What happens: stretch, go, break off · To what, where: arms, bit

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, arms), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 last	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 last	case
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stretched	nsubj
6	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 last	acl:relcl
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 arms	nmod:poss
8	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stretched	obj
9	round	round	ADV	_	6 stretched	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stretched	obj
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 far	advmod
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 stretched	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 go	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 go	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 go	aux
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 far	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 broke	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 broke	cc
19	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stretched	conj
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 broke	compound:prt
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bit	det
22	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 broke	obl:unmarked
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 edge	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 edge	det
25	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bit	nmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 hand	case
27	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 hand	det
28	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 edge	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stretch	past	Alice	Alice's arms	far, round property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent arm=Patient it=Result
2	go	would	arms = arm			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	break off	past	Alice not said here	a bit of the edge with each hand		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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