Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 62
And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and her face brightened up at the thought that she was now the right size for going through the little door into that lovely garden.
Who acts: feeling, face, right size · What happens: be, brighten up, go · To what, where: thought, right size, little door
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 (feeling, face, right size), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 was | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 was | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 was | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 high | cop |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 was | advmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 high | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 high | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 high | cop |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 high | advmod |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 ten | advmod |
| 11 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 inches | nummod |
| 12 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 high | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brightened | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 brightened | cc |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 face | nmod:poss |
| 17 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brightened | nsubj |
| 18 | brightened | brighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 high | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 brightened | compound:prt |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 thought | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 thought | det |
| 22 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brightened | obl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 size | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 size | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 size | cop |
| 26 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 size | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 size | det |
| 28 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 size | amod |
| 29 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thought | nmod |
| 30 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 going | mark |
| 31 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 size | acl |
| 32 | through | through | ADP | _ | 35 door | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 door | det |
| 34 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 door | amod |
| 35 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 going | obl |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 garden | case |
| 37 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 garden | det |
| 38 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 garden | amod |
| 39 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 going | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 high | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | feeling | now | ten inches obl:unmarked; high property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | brighten up | participle | feeling's face | the thought | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | feeling | the right size | now | tree rules | |||
| 4 | go | gerund | the right size not said here | the little door | into that lovely garden | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through door=Initial_Location into garden=Destination |
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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