Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 1

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?”

Who acts: Alice, sister, book, pictures · What happens: begin, get, sit, have, do, peep · To what, where: nothing, Alice, book, pictures, use · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, sister, book, pictures), 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	3 beginning	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 beginning	aux
3	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	59 thought	csubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 get	mark
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 beginning	xcomp
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 tired	advmod
7	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	xcomp
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 sitting	mark
9	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 tired	advcl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 sister	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sister	nmod:poss
12	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 bank	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bank	det
15	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sister	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 having	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 having	cc
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 having	mark
19	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 beginning	conj
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 having	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 do	mark
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 nothing	acl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 once	punct
24	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 peeped	advmod
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 twice	cc
26	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 once	conj
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 peeped	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 peeped	aux
29	peeped	peep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 having	advcl
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 book	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 book	det
32	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 peeped	obl
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 sister	nmod:poss
34	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 reading	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 reading	aux
36	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 book	acl:relcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 had	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 had	cc
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 had	nsubj
40	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 beginning	parataxis
41	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	42 pictures	det
42	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 had	obj
43	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 conversations	cc
44	conversations	conversation	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 pictures	conj
45	in	in	ADP	_	46 it	case
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 conversations	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 use	punct
48	“	"	PUNCT	_	53 use	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 use	cc
50	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	53 use	nsubj
51	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 use	cop
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 use	det
53	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 pictures	nmod
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 book	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 book	det
56	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 use	nmod
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 had	punct
58	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 beginning	punct
59	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
60	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 thought	obj
61	“	"	PUNCT	_	63 pictures	punct
62	without	without	ADP	_	63 pictures	case
63	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 Alice	appos
64	or	or	CCONJ	_	65 conversations	cc
65	conversations	conversation	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 pictures	conj
66	?	?	PUNCT	_	63 pictures	punct
67	”	"	PUNCT	_	59 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past · progressive	Alice				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get	to-infinitive	Alice not said here			tired property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	sit	gerund	Alice not said here			by Alice's sister on the bank	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by sister=Location
4	have	gerund	Alice not said here	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
5	do	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	nothing not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	peep	past · perfect · passive		Alice	the book	once property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
7	read	past · progressive	Alice's sister	the book not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic
8	have	past	book	no pictures or conversations in bank			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Patient
9	is a in a quote	present	no pictures or conversations in bank	the use		of a book	tree rules
10	think speech: other	past	Alice				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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