--- title: As there seemed to be no chance of getting her hands up to her head,… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: As there seemed to be no chance of getting her hands up to her head, she tried to get her head down to them, and was delighted to find that her neck would bend about easily in any direction, like a serpent. Who acts: Alice, chance, neck. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/80/) [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/) / 80 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 80 As there seemed to be no chance of getting her hands up to her head, she tried to get her head down to them, and was delighted to find that her neck would bend about easily in any direction, like a serpent. **Who acts:** Alice, chance, neck · **What happens:** seem, be, get, try, find, bend · **To what, where:** chance, hands, head, direction · **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 (Alice, chance, neck), 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:pg11:6:80 # text = As there seemed to be no chance of getting her hands up to her head, she tried to get her head down to them, and was delighted to find that her neck would bend about easily in any direction, like a serpent. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 7 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 xcomp _ _ 8 of of SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 up up ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 down down ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 bend bend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 37 about about ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 easily easily ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 41 det _ _ 41 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 like like ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 serpent serpent NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** | past | Alice *not said here* | | | there | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | no chance | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **get** | gerund | no chance *not said here* | Alice's hands | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus | | 4 | **try** | past | Alice | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | Alice's head | | | | down *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus | | 6 | **is** | past | Alice *not said here* | | | | | delighted *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **find** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 8 | **bend** | would | Alice's neck | | | any direction and a serpent | | easily *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in direction=Location | 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 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/81/) - ↑ back to [Chapter V. 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