Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 90

So Alice began telling them her adventures from the time when she first saw the White Rabbit.

Who acts: Alice · What happens: begin, tell, see, adventure · To what, where: adventures, explanations, White Rabbit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille. 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 began	advmod
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 began	xcomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 telling	iobj
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 adventures	nmod:poss
7	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 telling	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 telling	obl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 saw	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 saw	advmod
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 telling	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Rabbit	det
16	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Rabbit	amod
17	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Alice					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	Alice not said here	Alice's adventures	explanations = explanation	time		tree rules
3	see	past	Alice	the White Rabbit			first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rabbit=Stimulus
4	adventure		Alice					nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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