Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 72

“Well, I’ll eat it,” said Alice, “and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door; so either way I’ll get into the garden, and I don’t care which happens!”

Who acts: Alice, cake · What happens: eat, say, make, grow, reach, creep · To what, where: cake, Alice, key, door, way, garden · 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, cake), 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	_	6 eat	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 eat	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 eat	nsubj
5	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	aux
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eat	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 reach	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 reach	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 reach	cc
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 makes	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 makes	nsubj
17	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 reach	advcl
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 makes	obj
19	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 makes	xcomp
20	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 grow	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 makes	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 reach	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 reach	aux
24	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 key	det
26	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 reach	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 makes	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 makes	cc
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 makes	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 makes	nsubj
31	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 makes	obj
33	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 makes	xcomp
34	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 grow	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 makes	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 creep	nsubj
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 creep	aux
38	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 makes	conj
39	under	under	ADP	_	41 door	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 door	det
41	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 creep	obl
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 get	punct
43	so	so	ADV	_	48 get	advmod
44	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	45 way	det
45	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 get	obl:unmarked
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 get	nsubj
47	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 get	aux
48	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 makes	conj
49	into	into	ADP	_	51 garden	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 garden	det
51	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 get	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 care	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 care	cc
54	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 care	nsubj
55	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 care	aux
56	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 care	advmod
57	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 makes	conj
58	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 happens	nsubj
59	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 care	ccomp
60	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 makes	punct
61	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 makes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	future	Alice	cake			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	say speech: express	past	Alice				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	cake	Alice			tree rules
4	grow in a quote	infinitive	Alice not said here			large property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	reach in a quote	can	Alice	the key			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent key=Theme
6	make a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	cake	Alice			tree rules
7	grow in a quote	infinitive	Alice not said here			small property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	creep in a quote	can	Alice		the door		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under door=Trajectory
9	get in a quote	future	Alice	either way	the garden		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into garden=Destination
10	not care in a quote	present · do-support	Alice				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
11	happen in a quote	present					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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