Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 53

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

Who acts: you, many way things, Alice, few things · What happens: see, happen, begin, think, be · 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 (you, many way things, Alice, few things), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	4 see	mark
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 happened	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 many	advmod
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 things	amod
8	out	out	ADP	_	14 way	case
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 out	punct
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 way	case
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 of	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 way	det
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 the	punct
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 things	compound
15	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 happened	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 happened	aux
17	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
18	lately	lately	ADV	_	17 happened	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 begun	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 begun	mark
21	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 begun	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 begun	aux
23	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 happened	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 think	mark
25	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 begun	xcomp
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 impossible	mark
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 few	advmod
28	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 things	amod
29	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 impossible	nsubj
30	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	29 things	advmod
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 impossible	cop
32	really	really	ADV	_	33 impossible	advmod
33	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 think	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	see	present	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	happen	past · perfect	many way things	lately property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past · perfect	Alice		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Alice not said here		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	few things	impossible 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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