--- title: It had taken "the highest tree in the wood", and now a serpent seeme… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mush… · tree and pragmatics description: It had taken "the highest tree in the wood", and now a serpent seemed to come "wriggling down from the sky". Who acts: It, serpent. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/) / 13 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 13 It had taken "the highest tree in the wood", and now a serpent seemed to come "wriggling down from the sky". **Who acts:** It, serpent · **What happens:** take, seem, come, wriggle down · **To what, where:** highest tree, wood, sky This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, serpent), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:010-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon.lesson:13 # text = It had taken "the highest tree in the wood", and now a serpent seemed to come "wriggling down from the sky". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 010-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 highest high ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nsubj 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 now now ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 serpent serpent NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 wriggling wriggle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 22 down down ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past · perfect | It | the highest tree | | the wood | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tree=Value in wood=Location | | 2 | **seem** | past | a serpent | | | | now | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | a serpent *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **wriggle down** *in a quote* | gerund | a serpent *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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:010-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon.lesson:13`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/12/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/)