Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 59
“I wish I hadn’t cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: wish, not cry, say, swim, try, find out · To what, where: way · 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 (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 | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 cried | advmod |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 wish | ccomp |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 cried | advmod |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 swam | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 swam | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 swam | nsubj |
| 17 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 swam | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 trying | punct |
| 20 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 swam | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 find | mark |
| 22 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 trying | xcomp |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 way | nmod:poss |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 find | obj |
| 25 | out | out | ADV | _ | 22 find | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | Alice | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not cry speech: express in a quote | past · perfect | Alice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | swim | past | Alice | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | try | gerund | Alice not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | find out not said to happen | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | Alice's way | out property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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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