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title: Alice crouched down among the trees as well as she could, for her ne… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice crouched down among the trees as well as she could, for her neck kept getting entangled among the branches, and every now and then she had to stop and untwist it. Who acts: Alice, neck. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, wit
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 111

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Alice crouched down among the trees as well as she could, for her neck kept getting entangled among the branches, and every now and then she had to stop and untwist it.

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**Who acts:** Alice, neck · **What happens:** crouch down, keep, get, entangle, have, stop · **To what, where:** trees, tone

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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 (Alice, neck), 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:pg11:6:111
# text = Alice crouched down among the trees as well as she could, for her neck kept getting entangled among the branches, and every now and then she had to stop and untwist it.
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	crouched	crouch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	among	among	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	11	cc	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	fixed	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	_
18	entangled	entangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	xcomp	_	_
19	among	among	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	conj	_	_
25	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	untwist	untwist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crouch down** | past | Alice |  |  | the trees |  | down *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tree=Location |
| 2 | **keep** | past | Alice's neck |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | gerund | Alice's neck *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **entangle** | participle | Alice's neck *not said here* |  |  |  |  | among the branches | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | past | Alice |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **stop** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 7 | **untwist** | infinitive | Alice *not said here* | tone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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