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title: She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of the… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large blue caterpillar, that was sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else. Who acts: mush
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 124

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She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large blue caterpillar, that was sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else.

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**Who acts:** mushroom, eyes, that · **What happens:** stretch up, peep, meet, sit, fold, smoke · **To what, where:** mushroom, tiptoe, those, top, arms, long hookah

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mushroom, eyes, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11:5:124
# text = She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large blue caterpillar, that was sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	peeped	peep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
22	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
38	folded	fold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	smoking	smoke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	hookah	hookah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	conj	_	_
48	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	51	amod	_	_
51	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nmod	_	_
54	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	51	conj	_	_
57	else	else	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch up** | past | mushroom | mushroom |  | tiptoe |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 2 | **peep** | past | mushroom *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over the edge of the mushroom | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over edge=Theme |
| 3 | **meet** | past | mushroom's eyes | those |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **sit** | past · progressive | that |  |  | the top |  | with top's arms | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location |
| 5 | **fold** | participle |  | top's arms *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **smoke** | gerund | that *not said here* | a long hookah |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hookah=Source |
| 7 | **take** | gerund | that *not said here* | the smallest notice of mushroom |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme |
| 8 | **notice** |  |  | mushroom |  |  |  |  | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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