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title: “And just as I’d taken the highest tree in the wood,” continued the… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “And just as I’d taken the highest tree in the wood,” continued the Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek, “and just as I was thinking I should be free of them at last, they must needs come wriggling down from the sky! Who acts: I, trees. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Car
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 93

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“And just as I’d taken the highest tree in the wood,” continued the Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek, “and just as I was thinking I should be free of them at last, they must needs come wriggling down from the sky!

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**Who acts:** I, trees · **What happens:** take, continue, raise, think, be, come · **To what, where:** highest tree, wood, Pigeon, voice, shriek, last · **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 (I, trees), 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:pg11:6:93
# text = “And just as I’d taken the highest tree in the wood,” continued the Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek, “and just as I was thinking I should be free of them at last, they must needs come wriggling down from the sky!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’d	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
16	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	raising	raise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	shriek	shriek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	just	just	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
37	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	ccomp	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	_
40	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
44	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	needs	need	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
46	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	parataxis	_	_
47	wriggling	wriggle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	46	xcomp	_	_
48	down	down	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
49	from	from	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | the highest tree |  | the wood |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **continue** | past |  | the Pigeon |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pigeon=Theme |
| 3 | **raise** | gerund |  | wood's voice |  | a shriek |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent voice=Theme to shriek=Destination |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past · progressive | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | should | I |  |  | last |  | of trees *= tree*; free *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** *in a quote* | must | trees *= tree* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **wriggle down** *in a quote* | gerund | trees *= tree* *not said here* |  |  | the sky |  | down *property* | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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