Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 22

Alice felt so desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, “If you please, sir—” The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go.

Who acts: Alice, Rabbit, sir · What happens: feel, be, ask, come, begin, start · To what, where: help, low timid voice, white kid gloves, one

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, Rabbit, sir), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 desperate	advmod
4	desperate	desperate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 ready	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ready	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ready	cop
8	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 desperate	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 ask	mark
10	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ready	xcomp
11	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ask	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 one	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 help	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	21 came	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 came	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Rabbit	det
20	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
22	near	near	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 began	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 began	nsubj
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 voice	punct
28	in	in	ADP	_	33 voice	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 voice	det
30	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 voice	amod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 low	punct
32	timid	timid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 voice	amod
33	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 began	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sir	punct
35	“	"	PUNCT	_	40 sir	punct
36	If	if	SCONJ	_	38 please	mark
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 please	nsubj
38	please	please	INTJ	_	40 sir	advcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 please	punct
40	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 started	nsubj
41	—	-	PUNCT	_	40 sir	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	40 sir	punct
43	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Rabbit	det
44	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 started	nsubj
45	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 began	parataxis
46	violently	violently	ADV	_	45 started	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 dropped	punct
48	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 started	conj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 gloves	det
50	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 gloves	amod
51	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 gloves	compound
52	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 dropped	obj
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 fan	cc
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 fan	det
55	fan	fan	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 gloves	conj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 skurried	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 skurried	cc
58	skurried	skurry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 felt	conj
59	away	away	ADV	_	58 skurried	advmod
60	into	into	ADP	_	62 darkness	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 darkness	det
62	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 skurried	obl:agent
63	as	as	ADV	_	64 hard	advmod
64	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	58 skurried	advmod
65	as	as	SCONJ	_	68 go	mark
66	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 go	nsubj
67	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	68 go	aux
68	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 hard	advcl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Alice			desperate property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past	Alice			ready property	tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	help of any one			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent help=Recipient
4	come	past	the Rabbit			near Alice	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near she=Location
5	begin	past	Alice		a low timid voice		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	start	past	sir			violently property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	drop	past	sir not said here	the white kid gloves and the fan			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=Theme
8	skurry away	participle	Alice not said here			away, hard property	tree rules
9	go	could	Rabbit				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	help			any one			nom help «act transitive»: of=patient

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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