--- title: Then it got down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, me… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Then it got down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely remarking as it went, “One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.” Who acts: hookah, One side, you, other side. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/62/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/) / [Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/) / 62 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 62 Then it got down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely remarking as it went, “One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.” **Who acts:** hookah, One side, you, other side · **What happens:** get down, crawl away, remark, go, make, grow · **To what, where:** grass, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (hookah, One side, you, other side), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11:6:62 # text = Then it got down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely remarking as it went, “One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.” 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 down down ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 off off ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 mushroom mushroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 crawled crawl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 away away ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 merely merely ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 remarking remark VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 “ " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 taller tall ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 shorter short ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 38 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get down** | past | hookah | | | | then | off the mushroom; down *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **crawl away** | past | hookah *not said here* | | | the grass | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grass=Trajectory | | 3 | **remark** *speech: assert* | gerund | hookah *not said here* | | | | | merely *property* | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **go** | past | hookah | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **make** *in a quote* | future | One side | you | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **grow** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **make** *in a quote* | future | the other side | you | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **grow** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | short *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/63/) - ↑ back to [Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/)