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title: After a while she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushr… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: After a while she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to work very carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual height. Who acts: A
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 112

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After a while she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to work very carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual height.

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**Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** remember, hold, set, work, nibble, grow · **To what, where:** pieces, hands, Alice, usual height · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg11:6:112
# text = After a while she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to work very carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual height.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	nibbling	nibble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
27	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	advmod	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	csubj	_	_
38	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	39	advmod	_	_
39	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	parataxis	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	42	advmod	_	_
42	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
48	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
49	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	advcl	_	_
50	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	49	obj	_	_
51	down	down	ADP	RP	_	49	compound:prt	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
54	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | past | Alice |  |  |  | while |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | past | Alice | the pieces of mushroom |  | Alice's hands | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent piece=Theme in hand=Location |
| 3 | **set** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **work** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **nibble** | gerund | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at one; first *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at one=Patient |
| 6 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **succeed** | past · perfect | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **bring down** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | Alice |  | Alice's usual height |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme to height=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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