Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 9

“They must go by the carrier,” she thought; “and how funny it’ll seem, sending presents to one’s own feet!

Who acts: dears, kind, it · What happens: go, think, seem, send · To what, where: presents, one own feet · 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 (dears, kind, it), 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	_	4 go	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 thought	ccomp
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 carrier	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 carrier	det
7	carrier	carrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 seem	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 seem	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 seem	cc
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 funny	advmod
16	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 seem	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seem	nsubj
18	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 seem	aux
19	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 thought	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sending	punct
21	sending	send	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 seem	xcomp
22	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sending	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	27 feet	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 feet	nummod
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 one	case
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 feet	amod
27	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sending	obl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	must	dears = dear			by the carrier	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by carrier=Location
2	think speech: other	past	kind				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	seem in a quote	future	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	send in a quote	gerund		presents	one own feet		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent present=Theme to foot=Destination

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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