Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 1

“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); “now I’m opening out like the largest telescope that ever was!

Who acts: Curiouser, Alice, good English · What happens: cry, be, forget, not speak, open out · To what, where: Alice, moment · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Curiouser, Alice, good English), 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	_	2 Curiouser	punct
2	Curiouser	curious	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 cried	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 curiouser	cc
4	curiouser	curious	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 Curiouser	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Curiouser	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Curiouser	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 surprised	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 surprised	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 surprised	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADV	_	14 surprised	advmod
14	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Alice	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 that	punct
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 surprised	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 moment	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 moment	det
19	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 that	nmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 forgot	nsubj
21	quite	quite	ADV	_	22 forgot	advmod
22	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 moment	acl:relcl
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 speak	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 speak	mark
25	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 forgot	xcomp
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 English	amod
27	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 speak	obj
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	14 surprised	punct
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 ’m	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 ’m	punct
31	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 ’m	advmod
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 ’m	nsubj
33	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	conj
34	opening	open	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 ’m	xcomp
35	out	out	ADP	_	34 opening	compound:prt
36	like	like	ADP	_	39 telescope	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 telescope	det
38	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 telescope	amod
39	telescope	telescope	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 opening	obl
40	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 was	nsubj
41	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	42 was	advmod
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 telescope	acl:relcl
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Curiouser	Alice			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alice=Topic
2	is	past	Alice			that obl; surprised property	tree rules
3	forget	past	Alice	the moment not said here			tree rules
4	not speak speech: other	to-infinitive	good English				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	be in a quote	present	Curiouser = curious		now		tree rules
6	open out in a quote	gerund	Curiouser = curious not said here			like the largest telescope	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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