Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 40

I’ll try and say ‘_How doth the little_—’” and she crossed her hands on her lap as if she were saying lessons, and began to repeat it, but her voice sounded hoarse and strange, and the words did not come the same as they used to do:—

Who acts: I, Paris, voice, words · What happens: try, say, do, cross, begin, repeat · To what, where: little, hands, lap, lessons, same · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Paris, voice, words), 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	3 try	nsubj
2	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 try	aux
3	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 say	cc
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 try	conj
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 doth	punct
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 doth	punct
8	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 doth	advmod
9	doth	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 little	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 doth	obj
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 doth	punct
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 ’	punct
14	’	'	SYM	_	3 try	parataxis
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 try	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 crossed	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 crossed	nsubj
18	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 try	conj
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hands	nmod:poss
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 crossed	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 lap	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 lap	nmod:poss
23	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 crossed	obl
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 saying	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 saying	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 saying	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 saying	aux
28	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 crossed	advcl
29	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 saying	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 began	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 began	cc
32	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 try	parataxis
33	to	to	PART	_	34 repeat	mark
34	repeat	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 began	xcomp
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 repeat	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sounded	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 sounded	cc
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 voice	nmod:poss
39	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sounded	nsubj
40	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 began	conj
41	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 sounded	xcomp
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 strange	cc
43	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 hoarse	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 come	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 come	cc
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 words	det
47	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 come	nsubj
48	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 come	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 come	advmod
50	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 try	conj
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 same	det
52	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 come	obj
53	as	as	SCONJ	_	55 used	mark
54	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 used	nsubj
55	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 come	advcl
56	to	to	PART	_	57 do	mark
57	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 used	xcomp
58	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 try	punct
59	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	future	I				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	I not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	present		the little			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Eventuality
4	cross in a quote	past	Paris	Paris's hands	Paris's lap		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
5	say speech: assert in a quote	past · progressive	Paris	lessons			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic
6	begin in a quote	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	repeat in a quote	to-infinitive		lap			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
8	sound in a quote	past	Paris's voice			hoarse property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
9	not come in a quote	past · do-support	the words	the same			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=Theme
10	use in a quote	past	words = word				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
11	do in a quote	to-infinitive	words = word not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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