--- title: “I’ve tried the roots of trees, and I’ve tried banks, and I’ve tried… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “I’ve tried the roots of trees, and I’ve tried banks, and I’ve tried hedges,” the Pigeon went on, without attending to her; “but those serpents! Who acts: Alice, Pigeon, I. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/87/) [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/) / 87 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 87 “I’ve tried the roots of trees, and I’ve tried banks, and I’ve tried hedges,” the Pigeon went on, without attending to her; “but those serpents! **Who acts:** Alice, Pigeon, I · **What happens:** have, try, go on, attend · **To what, where:** roots, tried banks, tried hedges, pigeon 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, Pigeon, I), 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:pg11:6:87 # text = “I’ve tried the roots of trees, and I’ve tried banks, and I’ve tried hedges,” the Pigeon went on, without attending to her; “but those serpents! 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ’ve have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 4 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ’ve have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 tried try VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ _ 14 banks bank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ’ve have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 19 tried try VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 amod _ _ 20 hedges hedge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ” " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Pigeon Pigeon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 26 on on ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 without without SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 attending attend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 “ " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 36 det _ _ 36 serpents serpent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **try** *in a quote* | past | | the roots of trees | | | | that serpents *obl* | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Eventuality | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Alice | tried banks | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bank=Patient | | 4 | **try** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Alice | tried hedges | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedge=Patient | | 6 | **try** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **go on** | past | the Pigeon | tried hedges *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **attend** | gerund | I *not said here* | | pigeon | | | | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to she=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 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/88/) - ↑ back to [Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/)