Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 93

“And just as I’d taken the highest tree in the wood,” continued the Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek, “and just as I was thinking I should be free of them at last, they must needs come wriggling down from the sky!

Who acts: I, trees · What happens: take, continue, raise, think, be, come · To what, where: highest tree, wood, Pigeon, voice, shriek, last · 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 (I, trees), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 taken	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 ’d	cc
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 ’d	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 ’d	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 ’d	nsubj
6	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 taken	aux:pass
7	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
9	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 tree	amod
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taken	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 wood	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wood	det
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taken	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 taken	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 continued	punct
16	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 taken	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Pigeon	det
18	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 continued	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 raising	punct
20	raising	raise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 continued	advcl
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 voice	nmod:poss
22	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 raising	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 shriek	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 shriek	det
25	shriek	shriek	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 raising	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 thinking	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 thinking	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 thinking	cc
29	just	just	ADV	_	33 thinking	advmod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 thinking	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 thinking	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 thinking	aux
33	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 raising	conj
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 free	nsubj
35	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 free	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 free	cop
37	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 thinking	ccomp
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 free	obl
40	at	at	ADP	_	41 last	case
41	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 free	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 come	punct
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 come	nsubj
44	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 come	aux
45	needs	need	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 come	nsubj
46	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 free	parataxis
47	wriggling	wriggle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 come	xcomp
48	down	down	ADV	_	47 wriggling	advmod
49	from	from	ADP	_	51 sky	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 sky	det
51	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 wriggling	obl
52	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	past · passive		the highest tree	the wood		tree rules
2	continue	past		the Pigeon			vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pigeon=Theme
3	raise	gerund		wood's voice	a shriek		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent voice=Theme to shriek=Destination
4	think speech: other in a quote	past · progressive	I				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	should	I		last	of trees = tree; free property	tree rules
6	come in a quote	must	trees = tree				tree rules
7	wriggle down in a quote	gerund	trees = tree not said here		the sky	down property	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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