Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 40

And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, “Do cats eat bats?

Who acts: Alice, cats · What happens: begin, get, go, say, do, eat · To what, where: Alice, dreamy sort, bats, way · 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, cats), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 here	cc
2	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	rather	rather	ADV	_	8 sleepy	advmod
8	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
12	on	on	SCONJ	_	13 saying	mark
13	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 went	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 herself	case
15	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 saying	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sort	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 sort	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 sort	det
19	dreamy	dreamy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sort	amod
20	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saying	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 way	case
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sort	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Do	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 Do	punct
25	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 went	parataxis
26	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 eat	nsubj
27	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 Do	parataxis
28	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 eat	obj
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Alice			here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get	to-infinitive	Alice not said here				sleepy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	go	past	Alice not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	say speech: assert	gerund	Alice not said here		Alice	a dreamy sort of way		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient
5	do in a quote	infinitive						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	eat in a quote	infinitive	cats	bats				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bat=Patient
7	sort			way				nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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