Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 80

As there seemed to be no chance of getting her hands up to her head, she tried to get her head down to them, and was delighted to find that her neck would bend about easily in any direction, like a serpent.

Who acts: Alice, chance, neck · What happens: seem, be, get, try, find, bend · To what, where: chance, hands, head, direction · Speech: someone speaks here

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, chance, neck), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 seemed	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 seemed	expl
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 tried	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	7 chance	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 chance	cop
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 chance	det
7	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seemed	xcomp
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 getting	mark
9	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 chance	acl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hands	nmod:poss
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 getting	obj
12	up	up	ADV	_	9 getting	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 head	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 up	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tried	nsubj
18	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	to	to	PART	_	20 get	mark
20	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 tried	xcomp
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 head	nmod:poss
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 get	obj
23	down	down	ADV	_	20 get	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 down	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 delighted	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 delighted	cc
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 delighted	cop
29	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tried	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 find	mark
31	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 delighted	advcl
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 bend	mark
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 neck	nmod:poss
34	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bend	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 bend	aux
36	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 find	ccomp
37	about	about	ADV	_	38 easily	advmod
38	easily	easily	ADV	_	36 bend	advmod
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 direction	case
40	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	41 direction	det
41	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bend	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 serpent	punct
43	like	like	ADP	_	45 serpent	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 serpent	det
45	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 direction	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	Alice not said here		there		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	no chance			tree rules
3	get	gerund	no chance not said here	Alice's hands			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus
4	try	past	Alice				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	Alice's head		down property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus
6	is	past	Alice not said here			delighted property	tree rules
7	find	to-infinitive	Alice not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	bend	would	Alice's neck		any direction and a serpent	easily property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in direction=Location

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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