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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 31

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She went on growing, and growing, and very soon had to kneel down on the floor: in another minute there was not even room for this, and she tried the effect of lying down with one elbow against the door, and the other arm curled round her head.

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**Who acts:** thing, effect · **What happens:** go, grow, have, kneel down, try, lie down · **To what, where:** other arm, floor, effect, head

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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 (thing, effect), 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:pg11:5:31
# text = She went on growing, and growing, and very soon had to kneel down on the floor: in another minute there was not even room for this, and she tried the effect of lying down with one elbow against the door, and the other arm curled round her head.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	kneel	kneel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
37	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	acl	_	_
38	down	down	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
41	elbow	elbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	against	against	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
50	curled	curl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	acl	_	_
51	round	round	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | thing | the other arm |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund | thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund | thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **kneel down** | to-infinitive | thing *not said here* |  |  | the floor | minute |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location |
| 6 | **try** | past | thing | the effect |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Eventuality |
| 7 | **lie down** | gerund | the effect *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with one elbow against the door; down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **curl** | participle |  | the other arm *not said here* |  | thing's head |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round head=Destination |

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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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