Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 47

Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I’ll come up: if not, I’ll stay down here till I’m somebody else’—but, oh dear!” cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, “I do wish they _would_ put their heads down!

Who acts: you, I, Alice · What happens: tell, like, come up, stay down, be, cry · To what, where: me, somebody, tears, 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 (you, I, 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	that	that	ADP	_	4 first	case
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Tell	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 like	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 like	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 like	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 like	nsubj
11	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	parataxis
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 like	xcomp
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 person	det
14	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 being	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 come	nsubj
17	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	ccomp
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 come	compound:prt
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 stay	punct
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 not	mark
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 stay	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 not	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 stay	nsubj
25	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 stay	aux
26	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	ccomp
27	down	down	ADV	_	26 stay	advmod
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 stay	advmod
29	till	till	SCONJ	_	31 ’m	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 ’m	nsubj
31	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 stay	advcl
32	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	31 ’m	obj
33	else	else	ADV	_	32 somebody	advmod
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 stay	punct
35	—	-	PUNCT	_	39 dear	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 dear	discourse
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 dear	punct
38	oh	oh	INTJ	_	39 dear	discourse
39	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	parataxis
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
42	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
43	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 cried	nsubj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 burst	punct
45	with	with	ADP	_	48 burst	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 burst	det
47	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 burst	amod
48	burst	burst	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 cried	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 tears	case
50	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 burst	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 wish	punct
52	“	"	PUNCT	_	55 wish	punct
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 wish	nsubj
54	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 wish	aux
55	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 cried	ccomp
56	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 wish	iobj
57	_	_	PUNCT	_	55 wish	punct
58	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 put	aux
59	_	_	PUNCT	_	60 put	punct
60	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	ccomp
61	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 heads	nmod:poss
62	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 put	obj
63	down	down	ADV	_	60 put	advmod
64	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	like a condition, not said to happen	present	I				then		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	come up	future	I						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stay down	future	I			here		down property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	be	present	I	somebody					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot somebody=Theme
6	cry speech: express in a quote	past	Alice					with a sudden burst of tears	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	wish	present · do-support	I		tears = tear				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
8	put down	would		tears's heads				down property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal
9	burst in a quote			tears					nom burst «act transitive»: of=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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