Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 87

Alice was very nearly getting up and saying, “Thank you, sir, for your interesting story,” but she could not help thinking there _must_ be more to come, so she sat still and said nothing.

Who acts: Alice · What happens: get up, say, thank, not help, think, be · To what, where: interesting story, you, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 getting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 getting	aux
3	very	very	ADV	_	5 getting	advmod
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 getting	advmod
5	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 getting	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 saying	cc
8	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 getting	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Thank	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 Thank	punct
11	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 getting	parataxis
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 Thank	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sir	punct
14	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 getting	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 story	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 story	case
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 story	nmod:poss
18	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 story	amod
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 getting	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 story	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 story	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 help	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 help	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 help	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 help	advmod
26	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 getting	conj
27	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 help	xcomp
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 thinking	advmod
29	_	_	PUNCT	_	30 must	punct
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 thinking	parataxis
31	_	_	PUNCT	_	33 more	punct
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 more	cop
33	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 getting	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 come	mark
35	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 more	acl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sat	punct
37	so	so	ADV	_	39 sat	advmod
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 sat	nsubj
39	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 getting	parataxis
40	still	still	ADV	_	39 sat	advmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 said	cc
42	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 sat	conj
43	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	42 said	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 getting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up	past · progressive	Alice	your interesting story				nearly property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Alice not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			you				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	not help	could	Alice						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	think speech: other not said to happen	gerund	Alice not said here			there			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	infinitive						more property	tree rules
7	come	to-infinitive							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	sit	past	Alice				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	say speech: assert	past	Alice not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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.

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