Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 74

Which way?”, holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size: to be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

Who acts: way, Alice, this, one, it · What happens: hold, feel, grow, be, find, remain · To what, where: hand, top, way, same size, cake, nothing things · 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 (way, Alice, this, one), 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 surprised	obl:unmarked
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 holding	punct
6	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 way	acl:relcl
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hand	nmod:poss
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 holding	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 top	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 top	det
11	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 holding	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 head	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 top	nmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 feel	mark
16	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 holding	advcl
17	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	18 way	det
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 feel	obj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 growing	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 growing	aux
21	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 way	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 surprised	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 surprised	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 surprised	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 surprised	cop
26	quite	quite	ADV	_	27 surprised	advmod
27	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
28	to	to	PART	_	29 find	mark
29	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 surprised	advcl
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 remained	mark
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 remained	nsubj
32	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 find	ccomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 size	det
34	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 size	amod
35	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 remained	obj
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	39 sure	punct
37	to	to	PART	_	39 sure	mark
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 sure	cop
39	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 surprised	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 happens	punct
41	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 happens	nsubj
42	generally	generally	ADV	_	43 happens	advmod
43	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 surprised	ccomp
44	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	46 eats	advmod
45	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 eats	nsubj
46	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 happens	advcl
47	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 eats	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 got	punct
49	but	but	CCONJ	_	52 got	cc
50	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 got	nsubj
51	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 got	aux
52	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 happens	parataxis
53	so	so	ADV	_	54 much	advmod
54	much	much	ADV	_	52 got	advmod
55	into	into	ADP	_	57 way	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 way	det
57	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 got	obl
58	of	of	SCONJ	_	59 expecting	mark
59	expecting	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	57 way	acl
60	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	69 things	compound
61	but	but	CCONJ	_	68 way	cc
62	out	out	ADP	_	68 way	case
63	-	-	PUNCT	_	62 out	punct
64	of	of	ADP	_	68 way	case
65	-	-	PUNCT	_	64 of	punct
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 way	det
67	-	-	PUNCT	_	66 the	punct
68	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 nothing	conj
69	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 expecting	obj
70	to	to	PART	_	71 happen	mark
71	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	69 things	acl
72	,	,	PUNCT	_	75 seemed	punct
73	that	that	SCONJ	_	75 seemed	mark
74	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	75 seemed	nsubj
75	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 got	parataxis
76	quite	quite	ADV	_	77 dull	advmod
77	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	75 seemed	xcomp
78	and	and	CCONJ	_	79 stupid	cc
79	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	77 dull	conj
80	for	for	ADP	_	81 life	case
81	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 dull	obl
82	to	to	PART	_	83 go	mark
83	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	75 seemed	xcomp
84	on	on	ADP	_	83 go	compound:prt
85	in	in	ADP	_	88 way	case
86	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	88 way	det
87	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	88 way	amod
88	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	83 go	obl
89	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold in a quote	gerund	which way not said here	Alice's hand	the top of Alice's head		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on top=Location
2	feel in a quote	to-infinitive	which way not said here	which way			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
3	grow in a quote	past · progressive	way	which way not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
4	is in a quote	past	Alice			which way obl:unmarked; surprised property	tree rules
5	find in a quote	to-infinitive	Alice not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	remain in a quote	past	Alice	the same size			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme size=Attribute
7	is in a quote	to-infinitive	Alice not said here			sure property	tree rules
8	happen in a quote	present	this			generally property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	eat in a quote	present	one	cake			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient
10	get in a quote	past · perfect	Alice		the way		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into way=Destination
11	expect in a quote	gerund	the way not said here	nothing things			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
12	happen in a quote	to-infinitive	the way not said here	nothing things not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
13	seem in a quote	past	it			dull property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
14	go on in a quote	to-infinitive			the common way		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location

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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