Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 81

She had just succeeded in curving it down into a graceful zigzag, and was going to dive in among the leaves, which she found to be nothing but the tops of the trees under which she had been wandering, when a sharp hiss made her draw back in a hurry: a large pigeon had flown into her face, and was beating her violently with its wings.

Who acts: neck, leaves, sharp hiss, hurry · What happens: succeed, curve down, go, dive in, find, be · To what, where: head, graceful zigzag, leaves, nothing, trees, neck

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 (neck, leaves, sharp hiss, hurry), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 succeeded	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 succeeded	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 succeeded	advmod
4	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 curving	mark
6	curving	curve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 succeeded	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 curving	obj
8	down	down	ADP	_	6 curving	compound:prt
9	into	into	ADP	_	12 zigzag	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 zigzag	det
11	graceful	graceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 zigzag	amod
12	zigzag	zigzag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 curving	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 going	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 going	cc
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 going	aux
16	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 succeeded	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 dive	mark
18	dive	dive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 going	xcomp
19	in	in	ADV	_	18 dive	advmod
20	among	among	ADP	_	22 leaves	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 leaves	det
22	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 dive	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 found	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 found	nsubj
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 found	nsubj
26	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 leaves	acl:relcl
27	to	to	PART	_	29 nothing	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 nothing	cop
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 found	obj
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 tops	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 tops	det
32	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 nothing	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 trees	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 trees	det
35	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 tops	nmod
36	under	under	ADP	_	37 which	case
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 wandering	obl
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 wandering	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 wandering	aux
40	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 wandering	aux
41	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 trees	acl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 made	punct
43	when	when	SCONJ	_	47 made	mark
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 hiss	det
45	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 hiss	amod
46	hiss	hiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 made	nsubj
47	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 nothing	acl:relcl
48	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 made	obj
49	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 made	xcomp
50	back	back	ADV	_	49 draw	advmod
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 hurry	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 hurry	det
53	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 draw	obl
54	:	:	PUNCT	_	59 flown	punct
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 pigeon	det
56	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 pigeon	amod
57	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 flown	nsubj:pass
58	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 flown	aux
59	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 hurry	acl:relcl
60	into	into	ADP	_	62 face	case
61	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 face	nmod:poss
62	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 flown	obl
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 beating	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 beating	cc
65	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	66 beating	aux
66	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 succeeded	advcl
67	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	68 violently	nmod:poss
68	violently	violently	ADV	_	66 beating	advmod
69	with	with	ADP	_	71 wings	case
70	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	71 wings	nmod:poss
71	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 beating	obl
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 succeeded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	succeed	past · perfect	neck				vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	curve down	gerund	neck not said here	head	a graceful zigzag		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into zigzag=Product
3	go	past · progressive	neck not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	dive in	to-infinitive	neck not said here		the leaves		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among leaf=Location
5	find	past	the leaves				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	is a	to-infinitive		nothing			tree rules
7	wonder speech: ask	past · perfect · progressive	neck		the trees		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	make	past	a sharp hiss	neck			tree rules
9	draw back	infinitive	neck not said here		a hurry		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in hurry=Destination
10	fly	past · perfect · passive	a hurry not said here	a large pigeon	neck's face		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into face=Trajectory
11	beat	past · progressive	neck not said here			with head's wings; violently property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with wing=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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