Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 36

I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

Who acts: I · What happens: not get · To what, where: rate

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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 twenty	case
6	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 get	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 rate	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 rate	det
9	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	shall	I			that rate		to twenty result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to twenty=Result

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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