Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 61

“What a curious feeling!” said Alice; “I must be shutting up like a telescope.”

Who acts: curious feeling · What happens: say, shut up · 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 (curious feeling), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	5 feeling	det:predet
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 feeling	det
4	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feeling	amod
5	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 feeling	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 feeling	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 shutting	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 shutting	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 shutting	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 shutting	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 shutting	aux
15	shutting	shut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 shutting	compound:prt
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 telescope	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 telescope	det
19	telescope	telescope	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shutting	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	what curious feeling						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	shut up in a quote	must · progressive	what curious feeling = feeling					like a telescope	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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