Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 63

First, however, she waited for a few minutes to see if she was going to shrink any further: she felt a little nervous about this; “for it might end, you know,” said Alice to herself, “in my going out altogether, like a candle.

Who acts: feeling, telescope, Alice · What happens: wait, see, go, shrink, feel, end · To what, where: feeling · 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 (feeling, telescope, Alice), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 waited	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 First	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	6 waited	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 waited	nsubj
6	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 minutes	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 minutes	det
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 minutes	amod
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 waited	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 waited	advcl
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 going	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 going	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 going	aux
16	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 see	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 shrink	mark
18	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 going	xcomp
19	any	any	ADV	_	20 further	advmod
20	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 shrink	advmod
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 felt	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 felt	nsubj
23	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 waited	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 little	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 nervous	obl:unmarked
26	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 felt	xcomp
27	about	about	ADP	_	28 this	case
28	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 nervous	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 end	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 end	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 end	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 end	nsubj
33	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 end	aux
34	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 felt	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 know	punct
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 know	nsubj
37	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 waited	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 know	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 waited	punct
40	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 waited	conj
41	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 said	nsubj
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 herself	case
43	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 said	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 going	punct
45	“	"	PUNCT	_	48 going	punct
46	in	in	SCONJ	_	48 going	mark
47	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 going	nsubj
48	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 said	ccomp
49	out	out	ADP	_	48 going	compound:prt
50	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	48 going	advmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 candle	punct
52	like	like	ADP	_	54 candle	case
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 candle	det
54	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 going	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	feeling		minute	first, however property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	feeling not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	feeling				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	shrink	to-infinitive	feeling not said here			far property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	feel	past	feeling			nervous property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	end in a quote	might	telescope				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	know in a quote	present	feeling				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	say speech: assert	past	Alice	feeling			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic
9	go out in a quote	gerund	Alice			like a candle; altogether property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/63/