Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 48

However, on the second time round, she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high: she tried the little golden key in the lock, and to her great delight it fitted!

Who acts: Alice, curtain, key · What happens: come, not notice, be, try, fit, delight · To what, where: low curtain, little door, little golden key, lock, great delight

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, curtain, key), 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	However	however	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 time	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
7	round	round	ADV	_	6 time	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 time	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 curtain	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 curtain	det
13	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 curtain	amod
14	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 noticed	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 noticed	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 noticed	advmod
18	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 curtain	acl:relcl
19	before	before	ADV	_	18 noticed	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 door	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 door	cc
22	behind	behind	ADP	_	27 door	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 door	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 door	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 door	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 door	amod
27	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
28	about	about	ADP	_	30 inches	case
29	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 inches	nummod
30	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 high	obl
31	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 door	amod
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 tried	punct
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 tried	nsubj
34	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	parataxis
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 key	det
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 key	amod
37	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 key	amod
38	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tried	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 lock	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 lock	det
41	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 key	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 fitted	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 fitted	cc
44	to	to	ADP	_	47 delight	case
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 delight	nmod:poss
46	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 delight	amod
47	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 fitted	obl
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 fitted	nsubj
49	fitted	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 tried	conj
50	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Alice		a low curtain	time	however property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon curtain=Location
2	not notice	past · perfect	Alice	a low curtain not said here			before property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer curtain=Stimulus
3	is a	past	curtain	a little door				tree rules
4	try	past	Alice	the little golden key	the lock			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Eventuality
5	fit	past	key				to Alice's great delight goal	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent to delight=Goal
6	delight		Alice					nom delight «feeling intransitive»: 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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