Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 71

Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which the words “EAT ME” were beautifully marked in currants.

Who acts: eye, little glass box, person · What happens: fall, lie, open, find, eat, mark · To what, where: little glass box, table, small cake, poor Alice, words, currants · 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 (eye, little glass box, person), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 fell	advmod
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eye	nmod:poss
3	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 box	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 box	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 box	amod
8	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 box	compound
9	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 lying	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lying	aux
12	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 box	acl:relcl
13	under	under	ADP	_	15 table	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 table	det
15	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lying	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 opened	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 opened	nsubj
18	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 opened	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 found	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 found	cc
22	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 opened	parataxis
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 found	obl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 cake	det
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 small	advmod
27	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 cake	amod
28	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 found	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 marked	punct
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 marked	obl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 words	det
33	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 marked	nsubj:pass
34	“	"	PUNCT	_	35 EAT	punct
35	EAT	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	33 words	parataxis
36	ME	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 EAT	obj
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	35 EAT	punct
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 marked	aux:pass
39	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	40 marked	advmod
40	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 found	conj
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 currants	case
42	currants	currant	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 marked	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	person's eye		a little glass box	soon property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on box=Location
2	lie	past · progressive	a little glass box		the table		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under table=Location
3	open	past	person	table			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
4	find	participle		a small cake	table		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Topic
5	eat in a quote	infinitive		poor Alice = alice			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
6	mark	past · passive		the words	currants	beautifully property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme on which=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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