Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 68

(Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse: she had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having seen in her brother’s Latin Grammar, “A mouse—of a mouse—to a mouse—a mouse—O mouse!”)

Who acts: Alice, this, right way, mouse · What happens: think, be, speak, not do, remember, have · To what, where: right way, thing, mouse, Latin · 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, this, right way, mouse), 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 thought	punct
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 way	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 way	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 way	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	ccomp
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 speaking	mark
11	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 way	acl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 mouse	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mouse	det
14	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 speaking	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 done	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 done	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 done	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 done	advmod
19	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 thought	conj
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	22 thing	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 thing	det
22	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 done	obj
23	before	before	ADV	_	19 done	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 remembered	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 remembered	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 remembered	nsubj
27	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
28	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 remembered	xcomp
29	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 having	xcomp
30	in	in	ADP	_	34 Latin	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 brother	nmod:poss
32	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Latin	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 brother	case
34	Latin	Latin	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 seen	obl
35	Grammar	Grammar	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Latin	flat
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 mouse	punct
37	“	"	PUNCT	_	39 mouse	punct
38	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 mouse	det
39	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 having	obl
40	—	-	PUNCT	_	43 mouse	punct
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 mouse	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 mouse	det
43	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 remembered	obl
44	—	-	PUNCT	_	47 mouse	punct
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 mouse	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 mouse	det
47	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 remembered	parataxis
48	—	-	PUNCT	_	50 mouse	punct
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 mouse	det
50	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 mouse	nmod
51	—	-	PUNCT	_	53 mouse	punct
52	O	o	INTJ	_	53 mouse	discourse
53	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	parataxis
54	!	!	PUNCT	_	53 mouse	punct
55	”	"	PUNCT	_	53 mouse	punct
56	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Alice				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is a	must	this	the right way			tree rules
3	speak speech: other	gerund	the right way not said here			to a mouse	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to mouse=Co-Agent
4	not do	past · perfect	Alice	such thing		before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
5	remember	past	Alice			of a mouse	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	have	gerund	Alice not said here	a mouse			tree rules
7	see	participle	a mouse not said here		mouse's brother's Latin		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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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