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title: “Come, my head’s free at last!” said Alice in a tone of delight, whi… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Come, my head’s free at last!” said Alice in a tone of delight, which changed into alarm in another moment, when she found that her shoulders were nowhere to be found: all she could see, when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green lea
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 75

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“Come, my head’s free at last!” said Alice in a tone of delight, which changed into alarm in another moment, when she found that her shoulders were nowhere to be found: all she could see, when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay far below her.

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**Who acts:** Alice, delight, all, immense length, green leaves · **What happens:** come, say, change, find, see, look down · **To what, where:** tone, alarm, shoulders, immense length, sea, delight · **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, delight, all, immense length), 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:pg11:6:75
# text = “Come, my head’s free at last!” said Alice in a tone of delight, which changed into alarm in another moment, when she found that her shoulders were nowhere to be found: all she could see, when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay far below her.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
35	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
40	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	43	nsubj	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	47	advmod	_	_
46	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	advcl	_	_
48	down	down	ADP	RP	_	47	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
51	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	parataxis	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	58	nsubj	_	_
58	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	acl:relcl	_	_
59	to	to	PART	TO	_	60	mark	_	_
60	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	xcomp	_	_
61	like	like	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	stalk	stalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	_
64	out	out	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
65	of	of	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
66	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
67	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	_
68	of	of	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
69	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	70	amod	_	_
70	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	67	nmod	_	_
71	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	72	nsubj	_	_
72	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	70	acl:relcl	_	_
73	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	72	advmod	_	_
74	below	below	ADP	IN	_	75	case	_	_
75	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	72	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Alice |  |  | a tone of delight |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **change** | past | delight |  |  |  | moment | into alarm *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into alarm=Result |
| 4 | **find** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **find** | past · passive |  | Alice's shoulders |  |  |  | nowhere *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 6 | **see** | could | all |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **look down** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 8 | **is a** | past |  | a immense length |  |  |  | of neck | tree rules |
| 9 | **seem** | past | a immense length |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 10 | **rise** | to-infinitive | a immense length *not said here* |  |  | a sea of green leaves |  | like a stalk | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out sea=Location |
| 11 | **lay** | present | green leaves |  |  |  |  | below Alice; far *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent below she=Destination |
| 12 | **intonate** |  |  | delight |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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