Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 31
And she began thinking over all the children she knew that were of the same age as herself, to see if she could have been changed for any of them.
Who acts: Alice, children · What happens: begin, think, know, be, see, change · To what, where: children, Alice
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, children), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 began | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 began | xcomp |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 children | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 children | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 children | det |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thinking | obl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 knew | nsubj |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 children | acl:relcl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 age | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 age | cop |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 age | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 age | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 age | amod |
| 16 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 children | acl:relcl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 herself | case |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 age | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | conj |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 changed | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 changed | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 changed | aux |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 changed | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 changed | aux:pass |
| 27 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 see | ccomp |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 any | case |
| 29 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 changed | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 any | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Alice | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | Alice not said here | over all children | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | know | past | Alice | all children not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | past | all children | of the same age | as Alice | tree rules | |||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | change a condition, not said to happen | could · perfect · passive | Alice | for any | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: subject=Theme for any=Co-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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