Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 15

It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get through was more hopeless than ever: she sat down and began to cry again.

Who acts: key, Alice · What happens: be, do, lie down, look through, get through, sit down · To what, where: one side

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 (key, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 much	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 much	cop
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 do	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 much	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lying	punct
10	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 do	advcl
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 lying	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 side	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 side	nummod
14	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lying	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 look	punct
16	to	to	PART	_	17 look	mark
17	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 lying	conj
18	through	through	ADV	_	17 look	advmod
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 garden	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 garden	det
21	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 look	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 eye	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 eye	nummod
24	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 look	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 get	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 get	cc
27	to	to	PART	_	28 get	mark
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 much	conj
29	through	through	ADV	_	28 get	advmod
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 more	cop
31	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 hopeless	advmod
32	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 get	xcomp
33	than	than	ADP	_	34 ever	case
34	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 hopeless	obl
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 sat	punct
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 sat	nsubj
37	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 much	parataxis
38	down	down	ADP	_	37 sat	compound:prt
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 began	cc
40	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 sat	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 cry	mark
42	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 began	xcomp
43	again	again	ADV	_	42 cry	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 much	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	key			much property	tree rules
2	do	could	Alice				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lie down	gerund	Alice not said here	one side		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location
4	look through	to-infinitive	Alice not said here			with one eye; into the garden; through property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into garden=Theme
5	get through	to-infinitive	key not said here			hopeless, through property	vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past				more property	tree rules
7	sit down	past	Alice				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	begin	past	Alice not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	Alice not said here		again		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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