Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 41

“How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale!

What happens: do, improve, shine, pour · To what, where: little crocodile, shining tail, waters, golden scale

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: 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 doth	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 doth	advmod
3	doth	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crocodile	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crocodile	amod
6	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 doth	obj
7	Improve	improve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 doth	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tail	nmod:poss
9	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 tail	amod
10	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Improve	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pour	punct
12	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 pour	cc
13	pour	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 Improve	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 waters	det
15	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pour	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 Nile	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Nile	det
18	Nile	Nile	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 waters	nmod
19	On	on	ADP	_	22 scale	case
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 scale	det
21	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 scale	amod
22	scale	scale	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pour	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 doth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do in a quote	present	the little crocodile		tree rules
2	improve in a quote	infinitive	crocodile's shining tail		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
3	shine in a quote	gerund			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pour in a quote	infinitive	the waters of the Nile	every golden scale	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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