Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 45

It’ll be no use their putting their heads down and saying ‘Come up again, dear!’

Who acts: eye, toys · What happens: be, put down, say, come up · To what, where: heads · 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 (eye, toys), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 use	nsubj
2	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 use	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 use	cop
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 use	det
5	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 putting	nsubj
7	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 use	advcl
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 heads	nmod:poss
9	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 putting	obj
10	down	down	ADV	_	7 putting	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 saying	cc
12	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 putting	conj
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 Come	punct
14	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 saying	ccomp
15	up	up	ADV	_	14 Come	advmod
16	again	again	ADV	_	14 Come	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dear	punct
18	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Come	vocative
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 Come	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	eye			use property	tree rules
2	put down	gerund	toys = toy	toys's heads		down property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal
3	say speech: assert	gerund	toys = toy not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come up	infinitive			again	dear vocative	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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