Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 65

And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

Who acts: Alice, candle · What happens: try, fancy, be, not remember, see, flame · To what, where: flame, thing · 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, candle), 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	_	3 tried	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tried	nsubj
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fancy	mark
5	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 fancy	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flame	det
8	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 blown	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 candle	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 candle	det
11	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flame	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 blown	cop
13	like	like	SCONJ	_	18 blown	mark
14	after	after	ADP	_	16 candle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 candle	det
16	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 blown	obl
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 blown	aux:pass
18	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 what	acl:relcl
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 blown	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 remember	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 remember	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 remember	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 remember	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 remember	advmod
25	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 blown	parataxis
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 seen	advmod
27	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 seen	aux
28	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 remember	ccomp
29	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	31 thing	det:predet
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 thing	det
31	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seen	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	Alice				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	fancy not said to happen	to-infinitive	Alice not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	is	present · passive		the flame of a candle	after the candle	blow property	tree rules
4	not remember	could	Alice				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	see	gerund · perfect		such thing	ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
6	flame		a candle				nom flame «process intransitive»: of=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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