Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 46

There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked; and when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the other, trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle, wondering how she was ever to get out again.

Who acts: doors, Alice · What happens: be, lock, try, walk, wonder · To what, where: doors, way, door, middle · 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 (doors, Alice), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
4	all	all	ADV	_	7 hall	advmod
5	round	round	ADP	_	7 hall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hall	det
7	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 doors	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 locked	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 locked	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 locked	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 locked	aux:pass
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 locked	advmod
13	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 were	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 when	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 when	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	2 were	parataxis
17	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 way	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 way	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 way	cop
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 way	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 way	det
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 when	parataxis
23	down	down	ADV	_	25 side	advmod
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 side	nummod
25	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 way	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 walked	cc
27	up	up	ADP	_	29 other	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 other	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 walked	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 trying	punct
31	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 other	advcl
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 door	det
33	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 trying	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 walked	punct
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 walked	nsubj
36	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 way	conj
37	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	36 walked	advmod
38	down	down	ADP	_	40 middle	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 middle	det
40	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 walked	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 wondering	punct
42	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 walked	advcl
43	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	48 get	advmod
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 get	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 get	cop
46	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	48 get	advmod
47	to	to	PART	_	48 get	mark
48	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 wondering	ccomp
49	out	out	ADV	_	48 get	advmod
50	again	again	ADV	_	48 get	advmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	doors round the hall		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lock	past · passive		doors = door			all property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is a	past · perfect	Alice	all way			one side nmod	tree rules
4	try	gerund	Alice not said here	every door				vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Eventuality
5	walk	past	Alice		the middle		sadly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down middle=Trajectory
6	wonder speech: ask	gerund	Alice not said here					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	is	past	Alice			ever; again	get, out 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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