Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 42

She felt that she was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and saying to her very earnestly, “Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a bat?” when suddenly, thump! thump! down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over.

Who acts: bat, thump, Dinah, fall · What happens: feel, doze off, begin, dream, walk, say · To what, where: hand, bat, truth, thump, heap · 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 (bat, thump, Dinah, fall), 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 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 dozing	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dozing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dozing	aux
6	dozing	doze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 felt	advcl
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 dozing	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 begun	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 begun	cc
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 begun	aux
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 begun	advmod
12	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 felt	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 dream	mark
14	dream	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 begun	xcomp
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 walking	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 walking	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 walking	aux
18	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 dream	advcl
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 walking	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 hand	case
21	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 walking	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 Dinah	case
23	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 walking	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 came	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 came	cc
26	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	59 came	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 saying	obl
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 earnestly	advmod
30	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	_	26 saying	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 tell	punct
32	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 tell	punct
33	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 tell	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Now	punct
35	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 tell	nsubj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Dinah	punct
37	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 saying	parataxis
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 tell	iobj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 truth	det
40	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tell	obj
41	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 eat	punct
42	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 eat	aux
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 eat	nsubj
44	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	45 eat	advmod
45	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 tell	advcl
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 bat	det
47	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 eat	obj
48	?	?	PUNCT	_	37 tell	punct
49	”	"	PUNCT	_	37 tell	punct
50	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	51 suddenly	advmod
51	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	59 came	advmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 suddenly	punct
53	thump	thump	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 came	nsubj
54	!	!	PUNCT	_	53 thump	punct
55	thump	thump	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 thump	conj
56	!	!	PUNCT	_	53 thump	punct
57	down	down	ADV	_	59 came	advmod
58	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 came	nsubj
59	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
60	upon	upon	ADP	_	62 heap	case
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 heap	det
62	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 came	obl
63	of	of	ADP	_	64 sticks	case
64	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 heap	nmod
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 leaves	cc
66	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 leaves	amod
67	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 sticks	conj
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 over	punct
69	and	and	CCONJ	_	73 over	cc
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 fall	det
71	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 over	nsubj
72	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	73 over	cop
73	over	over	ADV	_	59 came	advmod
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	bat						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	doze off	past · progressive	bat						vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	begin	past · perfect							vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	dream	to-infinitive							vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	walk	past · progressive	bat	hand		hand		with Dinah	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in hand=Trajectory
6	say speech: ask	gerund	thump and thump not said here		bat			earnestly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
7	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Dinah	the truth	thump and thump = thump		now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient truth=Topic
8	eat in a quote	past · do-support	bat	a bat			ever		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bat=Patient
9	come	past	thump and thump			a heap of sticks and dry leaves		down, suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon heap=Location
10	is	past	the fall					over property	tree rules

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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