Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 33

Besides, _she’s_ she, and _I’m_ I, and—oh dear, how puzzling it all is!

Who acts: I · What happens: be, puzzle · To what, where: little

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 (I), 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	Besides	besides	INTJ	_	5 ’s	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Besides	punct
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	1 Besides	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ’s	nsubj
5	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 ’m	advcl
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 she	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ’s	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ’m	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ’m	cc
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 and	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 ’m	nsubj
12	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 I	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 ’m	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dear	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dear	cc
17	—	-	PUNCT	_	19 dear	punct
18	oh	oh	INTJ	_	19 dear	discourse
19	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ’m	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 puzzling	punct
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 puzzling	advmod
22	puzzling	puzzle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 dear	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 puzzling	obj
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 it	det
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 puzzling	aux
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 ’m	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	I						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	puzzle	present · progressive	I not said here	little					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

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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