Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 65

Everything is so out-of-the-way down here, that I should think very likely it can talk: at any rate, there’s no harm in trying.”

Who acts: Everything, I, way, harm · What happens: be, think, talk, try · To what, where: way, rate · 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 (Everything, I, way, harm), 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	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 way	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 way	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	10 way	advmod
4	out	out	ADP	_	10 way	case
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 out	punct
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 way	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 of	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 the	punct
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	down	down	ADV	_	12 here	advmod
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 way	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 think	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 think	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 think	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 think	aux
17	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 way	acl:relcl
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 likely	advmod
19	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 think	xcomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 talk	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 talk	aux
22	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 think	ccomp
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 rate	punct
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 rate	case
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 rate	det
26	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 think	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ’s	punct
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 ’s	expl
29	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 rate	acl:relcl
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 harm	det
31	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ’s	obj
32	in	in	SCONJ	_	33 trying	mark
33	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 harm	acl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 way	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Everything		the way; here		tree rules
2	think speech: other	should	I	the way not said here	any rate	likely property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent way=Attribute clause=Theme
3	talk	can	way				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	try	gerund	no harm not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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