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description: It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had expected: before she had drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing against the ceiling, and had to stoop to save her neck from being broken. Who acts: bottle, thing, head. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapt
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 28

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It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had expected: before she had drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing against the ceiling, and had to stoop to save her neck from being broken.

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**Who acts:** bottle, thing, head · **What happens:** do, expect, drink, find, press, have · **To what, where:** thing, bottle, head, neck

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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 (bottle, thing, head), 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:pg11:5:28
# text = It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had expected: before she had drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing against the ceiling, and had to stoop to save her neck from being broken.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
9	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	drunk	drink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
18	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	20	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	pressing	press	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	against	against	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	stoop	stoop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | bottle |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **expect** | past · perfect · passive |  | thing |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **drink** | past · perfect | thing | half bottle |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient |
| 4 | **find** | past | thing | thing's head |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic |
| 5 | **press** | gerund | thing's head *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against the ceiling | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against ceiling=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | past | thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **stoop** | to-infinitive | thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **save** | to-infinitive | thing *not said here* | thing's neck |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Theme |
| 9 | **break** | gerund · passive | thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V» |

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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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