Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 18

But she went on all the same, shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool all round her, about four inches deep and reaching half down the hall.

Who acts: Alice, shedding · What happens: go, shed, be, reach · To what, where: same, gallons, large pool, half

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 (Alice, shedding), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 went	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 same	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 same	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 same	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 shedding	punct
9	shedding	shed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 pool	csubj
10	gallons	gallon	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shedding	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 tears	case
12	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gallons	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 was	punct
14	until	until	SCONJ	_	16 was	mark
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 was	expl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 pool	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pool	det
18	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pool	amod
19	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
20	all	all	ADV	_	22 her	advmod
21	round	round	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 deep	punct
24	about	about	ADV	_	25 four	advmod
25	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 inches	nummod
26	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 deep	obl:unmarked
27	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 reaching	cc
29	reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 deep	conj
30	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	29 reaching	obj
31	down	down	ADP	_	33 hall	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hall	det
33	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 reaching	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Alice		all same	round girl	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round she=Initial_Location
2	shed	gerund		gallons of tears			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gallon=Source
3	is a	past	shedding	a large pool			tree rules
4	reach	gerund	Alice not said here	half		down the hall	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent half=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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