Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 11

She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was labelled “ORANGE MARMALADE”, but to her great disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody underneath, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.

Who acts: Alice, jar, fear · What happens: take down, pass, labell, be, not like, drop · To what, where: jar, somebody

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, jar, fear), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 took	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 jar	det
5	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 took	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 shelves	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shelves	det
10	shelves	shelf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 passed	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 passed	nsubj
13	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	advcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 labelled	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 labelled	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 labelled	aux:pass
17	labelled	labell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 took	parataxis
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 MARMALADE	punct
19	ORANGE	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 MARMALADE	amod
20	MARMALADE	marmalade	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 labelled	xcomp
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 MARMALADE	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 empty	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 empty	cc
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 disappointment	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 disappointment	nmod:poss
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 disappointment	amod
27	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 empty	obl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 empty	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 empty	cop
30	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 labelled	conj
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 like	punct
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 like	nsubj
33	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 like	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 like	advmod
35	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	parataxis
36	to	to	PART	_	37 drop	mark
37	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 like	xcomp
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 jar	det
39	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 drop	obj
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 fear	case
41	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 drop	obl
42	of	of	SCONJ	_	43 killing	mark
43	killing	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 fear	acl
44	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	43 killing	obj
45	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	44 somebody	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 managed	punct
47	so	so	ADV	_	48 managed	advmod
48	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 like	conj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 put	mark
50	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 managed	xcomp
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 put	obj
52	into	into	ADP	_	53 one	case
53	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 put	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 cupboards	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 cupboards	det
56	cupboards	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 one	nmod
57	as	as	SCONJ	_	59 fell	mark
58	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 fell	nsubj
59	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 managed	advcl
60	past	past	ADP	_	61 it	case
61	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 fell	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take down	past	Alice	a jar		from one of the shelves	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Theme
2	pass	past	Alice				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	labell	past · passive		jar			tree rules
4	is	past	jar			to Alice's great disappointment; empty property	tree rules
5	not like	past · do-support	Alice				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	drop not said to happen	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	the jar		for fear	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Theme
7	kill	gerund	fear not said here	somebody			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent somebody=Theme
8	manage	participle	Alice not said here				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	put	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	jar		into one of the cupboards	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
10	fall	past	Alice		jar		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme past it=Initial_Location
11	disappoint		Alice				nom disappointment «feeling 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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