Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 71

Her chin was pressed so closely against her foot, that there was hardly room to open her mouth; but she did it at last, and managed to swallow a morsel of the lefthand bit.

Who acts: room, Alice · What happens: press, be, open, do, manage, swallow · To what, where: chin, mouth, last, morsel

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 (room, 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 chin	nmod:poss
2	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pressed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pressed	aux:pass
4	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 closely	advmod
6	closely	closely	ADV	_	4 pressed	advmod
7	against	against	ADP	_	9 foot	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 foot	nmod:poss
9	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pressed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 was	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 was	mark
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pressed	parataxis
14	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	15 room	advmod
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 was	nsubj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 open	mark
17	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 room	acl
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mouth	nmod:poss
19	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 open	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 did	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 did	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 did	nsubj
23	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pressed	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 did	obj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 last	case
26	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 did	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 managed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 managed	cc
29	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pressed	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 swallow	mark
31	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 managed	xcomp
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 morsel	det
33	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 swallow	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 bit	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 bit	det
36	lefthand	lefthand	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bit	compound
37	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 morsel	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	press	past · passive		Alice's chin		against Alice's foot; closely property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	be	past	room		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	open	to-infinitive	room not said here	Alice's mouth			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
4	do	past	Alice	chin	last		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
5	manage	past					vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	swallow	to-infinitive		a morsel of the lefthand bit			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=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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