Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 50

How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head through the doorway; “and even if my head would go through,” thought poor Alice, “it would be of very little use without my shoulders.

Who acts: Alice, head, poor Alice, key · What happens: long, get out, wander, not get, go through, think · To what, where: dark hall, beds, head, doorway · 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, head, poor Alice, 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 longed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 longed	nsubj
3	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 thought	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 get	mark
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 longed	xcomp
6	out	out	ADP	_	10 hall	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 hall	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 hall	det
9	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hall	amod
10	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wander	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wander	cc
13	wander	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 longed	parataxis
14	about	about	ADV	_	13 wander	advmod
15	among	among	ADP	_	17 beds	case
16	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 beds	det
17	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wander	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 flowers	case
19	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 flowers	amod
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 beds	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fountains	cc
22	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	24 fountains	det
23	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fountains	amod
24	fountains	fountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 flowers	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 get	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 get	cc
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 get	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 get	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 get	advmod
30	even	even	ADV	_	31 get	advmod
31	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wander	conj
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 head	nmod:poss
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 get	obj
34	through	through	ADP	_	36 doorway	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 doorway	det
36	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 get	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 longed	punct
38	“	"	PUNCT	_	45 go	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 go	cc
40	even	even	ADV	_	45 go	advmod
41	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 go	mark
42	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 head	nmod:poss
43	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 go	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 go	aux
45	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 thought	ccomp
46	through	through	ADV	_	45 go	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 go	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	45 go	punct
49	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
50	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 Alice	amod
51	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 thought	obj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 use	punct
53	“	"	PUNCT	_	60 use	punct
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 use	nsubj
55	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 use	aux
56	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	60 use	cop
57	of	of	ADP	_	60 use	case
58	very	very	ADV	_	59 little	advmod
59	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 use	amod
60	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 thought	ccomp
61	without	without	ADP	_	63 shoulders	case
62	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 shoulders	nmod:poss
63	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 use	nmod
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	49 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	long	past	Alice				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	get out not said to happen	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	that dark hall			tree rules
3	wander	present			that beds of bright flowers and that cool fountains	about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among bed=Trajectory
4	not get	could	Alice	Alice's head	the doorway		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus
5	go through a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	would	my head			through property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	think speech: other	past	poor Alice				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	is in a quote	would	key			of little use; without my shoulders	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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