Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 57

(Alice had been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station.)

Who acts: Alice, you, children, row · What happens: be, come, go, find, dig, lodge · To what, where: general conclusion, English coast, number, sand, houses

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, you, children, row), 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	_	7 seaside	punct
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 seaside	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seaside	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 seaside	cop
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 seaside	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 seaside	det
7	seaside	seaside	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 seaside	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 life	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 life	nmod:poss
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 once	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 come	cc
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 seaside	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 conclusion	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 conclusion	det
18	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 conclusion	amod
19	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wherever	punct
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 wherever	nsubj
22	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	19 conclusion	nmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 go	nsubj
24	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 wherever	advcl:relcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	24 go	obl
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 coast	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 coast	det
28	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 coast	amod
29	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 find	nsubj
31	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 go	parataxis
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 number	det
33	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 find	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 machines	case
35	bathing	bathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 machines	compound
36	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 number	nmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 sea	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sea	det
39	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 machines	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 children	punct
41	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	42 children	det
42	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 machines	conj
43	digging	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 children	acl
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 sand	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 sand	det
46	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 digging	obl
47	with	with	ADP	_	49 spades	case
48	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 spades	amod
49	spades	spade	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 digging	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 row	punct
51	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	53 row	advmod
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 row	det
53	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 spades	nmod
54	of	of	SCONJ	_	55 lodging	mark
55	lodging	lodge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	53 row	acl
56	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 lodging	obj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 station	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 station	cc
59	behind	behind	ADP	_	60 them	case
60	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 station	nmod
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 station	det
62	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 station	compound
63	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	parataxis
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 seaside	punct
65	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 seaside	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	Alice			to the seaside; once property	tree rules
2	come	past · perfect	Alice not said here		the general conclusion		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to conclusion=Initial_Location
3	go	present	you		the English coast		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on coast=Location
4	find	present	you	a number of bathing machines in the sea and some children			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
5	dig	gerund	some children not said here		the sand	with wooden spades a row	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with spade=Instrument
6	lodge	gerund	a row not said here	houses			vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme house=Location

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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