Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 24

How funny it’ll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downward!

Who acts: it, people · What happens: seem, come out, walk

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 (it, people), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 funny	advmod
2	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seem	advcl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seem	nsubj
4	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 seem	aux
5	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 come	mark
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 seem	xcomp
8	out	out	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	among	among	ADP	_	11 people	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 people	det
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 walk	nsubj
13	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 people	acl:relcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 heads	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 heads	nmod:poss
16	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 walk	obl
17	downward	downward	ADV	_	13 walk	advmod
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	seem	future	it		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	come out	to-infinitive		among the people; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	walk	present	the people	with people's heads; downward property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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