Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 43
“I’m sure those are not the right words,” said poor Alice, and her eyes filled with tears again as she went on, “I must be Mabel after all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little house, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so many lessons to learn!
Who acts: poor Alice, eyes, Alice · What happens: be, not be, say, fill, go on, mabel · To what, where: right words, poor Alice, poky little house, toys · 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 (poor Alice, eyes, Alice), 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 | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’m | nsubj |
| 3 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ’m | xcomp |
| 5 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 words | det |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 words | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 words | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 words | det |
| 9 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 words | amod |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ’m | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Alice | amod |
| 15 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 filled | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 filled | cc |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 filled | nsubj |
| 20 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 tears | case |
| 22 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 filled | obl |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 filled | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 went | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 went | nsubj |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 filled | advcl |
| 27 | on | on | ADV | _ | 26 went | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Mabel | punct |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 Mabel | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 Mabel | nsubj |
| 31 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 Mabel | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 Mabel | aux:pass |
| 33 | Mabel | mabel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 went | conj |
| 34 | after | after | ADP | _ | 35 all | case |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 Mabel | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 have | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 have | cc |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 have | nsubj |
| 39 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 have | aux |
| 40 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | conj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 go | mark |
| 42 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 have | xcomp |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 live | cc |
| 44 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 go | conj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 house | case |
| 46 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 49 house | nsubj |
| 47 | poky | poky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 house | amod |
| 48 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 house | amod |
| 49 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 live | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 have | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 have | cc |
| 52 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 53 | next | next | ADV | _ | 56 toys | advmod |
| 54 | to | to | ADP | _ | 56 toys | case |
| 55 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 56 toys | det |
| 56 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 have | obj |
| 57 | to | to | PART | _ | 58 play | mark |
| 58 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 56 toys | acl |
| 59 | with | with | ADP | _ | 58 play | obl |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 67 lessons | punct |
| 61 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 67 lessons | cc |
| 62 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 67 lessons | discourse |
| 63 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 62 oh | punct |
| 64 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 66 many | advmod |
| 65 | so | so | ADV | _ | 66 many | advmod |
| 66 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 67 lessons | amod |
| 67 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 have | obl |
| 68 | to | to | PART | _ | 69 learn | mark |
| 69 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 67 lessons | acl |
| 70 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | poor Alice = alice | sure property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | that right words | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | poor Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | fill | participle | Alice's eyes | again | with tears | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tear=Instrument | |||
| 5 | go on | past | Alice | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | mabel in a quote | must · passive | poor Alice = alice | after all | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | have in a quote | shall | poor Alice = alice | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | poor Alice = alice not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | live in a quote | infinitive | poor Alice = alice not said here | poky little house | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | ||||
| 10 | have in a quote | present | poor Alice not said here | no toys | many lessons obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Patient | |||
| 11 | play in a quote | to-infinitive | poor Alice not said here | no toys not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 12 | learn in a quote | to-infinitive | poor Alice not said here | vn learn-14-1 «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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