Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 52

She got up and went to the table to measure herself by it, and found that, as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet high, and was going on shrinking rapidly: she soon found out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether.

Who acts: Alice, this, cause · What happens: get up, go, measure, find, guess, be · To what, where: table, Alice, cause

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 (Alice, this, cause), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADV	_	2 got	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 table	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 table	det
8	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 measure	mark
10	measure	measure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	advcl
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 measure	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 measure	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 found	cc
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
17	that	that	ADV	_	16 found	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 guess	punct
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 nearly	advmod
20	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	24 guess	advmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 guess	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 guess	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 guess	aux
24	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 found	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 high	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 high	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 high	cop
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 high	advmod
29	about	about	ADV	_	30 two	advmod
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 feet	nummod
31	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 high	obl:unmarked
32	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 guess	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 going	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 going	cc
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 going	aux
36	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 got	advcl
37	on	on	SCONJ	_	38 shrinking	mark
38	shrinking	shrink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 going	advcl
39	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	38 shrinking	advmod
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	43 found	punct
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 found	nsubj
42	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 found	advmod
43	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	parataxis
44	out	out	ADP	_	43 found	compound:prt
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 holding	mark
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 cause	det
47	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 holding	nsubj
48	of	of	ADP	_	52 fan	case
49	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	52 fan	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 fan	cop
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 fan	det
52	fan	fan	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 cause	nmod
53	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 holding	nsubj
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 holding	aux
55	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 found	advcl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 dropped	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 dropped	cc
58	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 dropped	nsubj
59	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 found	conj
60	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 dropped	obj
61	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	59 dropped	advmod
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 time	punct
63	just	just	ADV	_	65 time	advmod
64	in	in	ADP	_	65 time	case
65	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 dropped	obl
66	to	to	PART	_	67 avoid	mark
67	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	65 time	acl
68	shrinking	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	67 avoid	xcomp
69	away	away	ADV	_	68 shrinking	advmod
70	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	68 shrinking	advmod
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up	past	Alice					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	go	past	Alice not said here		the table			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to table=Initial_Location
3	measure	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	Alice			by Table	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme herself=Value
4	find	past	Alice not said here				that property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	guess	could	Alice				nearly property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	Alice			now	two feet obl:unmarked; high property	tree rules
7	go	past · progressive	Alice not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	shrink	gerund	Alice not said here				rapidly property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	find out	past	Alice				soon property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
10	is	past	this				of the fan	tree rules
11	hold	past · progressive	the cause					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	drop	past	Alice	cause		time	hastily property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
13	avoid	to-infinitive	Alice not said here					vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
14	shrink away	gerund	Alice not said here				altogether, away property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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