Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 90

And it’ll fetch things when you throw them, and it’ll sit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things—I can’t remember half of them—and it belongs to a farmer, you know, and he says it’s so useful, it’s worth a hundred pounds!

Who acts: terrier, you, I, half · What happens: fetch, throw, sit up, beg, not remember, belong · To what, where: things, half · 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 (terrier, you, I, half), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 fetch	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fetch	nsubj
3	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fetch	aux
4	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fetch	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 throw	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 throw	nsubj
8	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fetch	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 throw	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sit	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sit	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sit	nsubj
13	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 sit	aux
14	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fetch	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 sit	compound:prt
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 beg	cc
17	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sit	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 dinner	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 dinner	nmod:poss
20	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 beg	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sorts	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sorts	cc
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 sorts	det
24	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fetch	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 things	case
26	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sorts	nmod
27	—	-	PUNCT	_	31 remember	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 remember	nsubj
29	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 remember	aux
30	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 remember	advmod
31	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fetch	parataxis
32	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	31 remember	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 half	nmod
35	—	-	PUNCT	_	38 belongs	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 belongs	cc
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 belongs	nsubj
38	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 remember	parataxis
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 farmer	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 farmer	det
41	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 belongs	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 know	punct
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 know	nsubj
44	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 belongs	parataxis
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 says	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 says	cc
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 says	nsubj
48	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 belongs	conj
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 useful	nsubj
50	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 useful	cop
51	so	so	ADV	_	52 useful	advmod
52	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 says	ccomp
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 ’s	punct
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 ’s	nsubj
55	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 belongs	conj
56	worth	worth	DET	PronType=Tot	58 hundred	det:predet
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 hundred	det
58	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	59 pounds	nummod
59	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 ’s	obj
60	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 fetch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fetch	future	terrier	things	all sorts of things obl	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	throw	present	you	things = thing		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	sit up	future	terrier			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	beg speech: request	infinitive	terrier not said here		for terrier's dinner	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for dinner=Topic
5	not remember	can	I	half of things		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent half=Theme
6	belong	present	terrier		to a farmer	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
7	know	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	say speech: assert	present	half			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
9	is	present	terrier		useful property	tree rules
10	sort			things		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/90/