Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 82

“We indeed!” cried the Mouse, who was trembling down to the end of his tail.

Who acts: We, Mouse · What happens: cry, tremble down · To what, where: Mouse

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 (We, 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	_	6 cried	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 cried	advmod
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 indeed	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Mouse	det
8	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 trembling	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 trembling	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 trembling	aux
12	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 Mouse	acl
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 trembling	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 end	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 end	det
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trembling	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 tail	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 tail	nmod:poss
19	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 end	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	We	the Mouse				indeed property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic
2	tremble down	past · progressive	the Mouse				to the end of half's tail	down property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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