Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 9
Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next.
Who acts: well, Alice · What happens: be, fall, have, go down, look, wonder · To what, where: plenty · 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 (well, 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 | Either | either | CCONJ | _ | 6 deep | cc:preconj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 well | det |
| 3 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deep | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 deep | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 deep | advmod |
| 6 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 fell | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 deep | parataxis |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 slowly | advmod |
| 12 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 10 fell | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 had | case |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fell | conj |
| 17 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 plenty | nmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 went | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 had | advcl |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 look | mark |
| 25 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 went | advcl |
| 26 | about | about | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 look | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 wonder | cc |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 wonder | mark |
| 30 | wonder | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 look | conj |
| 31 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 33 going | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 going | aux |
| 33 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 wonder | ccomp |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 happen | mark |
| 35 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 going | xcomp |
| 36 | next | next | ADV | _ | 35 happen | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 deep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the well | deep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | Alice | slowly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Alice | plenty of time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go down | past | Alice | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | about Alice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about she=Theme | ||||
| 6 | wonder speech: ask | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | go | past · progressive | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 8 | happen | to-infinitive | next property | 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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