Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 96
It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded with the birds and animals that had fallen into it: there were a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures.
Who acts: history, pool, birds, Duck · What happens: be, go, get, fall · To what, where: high time, history
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 (history, pool, birds, Duck), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 time | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | cop |
| 3 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 getting | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 getting | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pool | det |
| 10 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 getting | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 getting | aux |
| 12 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 go | conj |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 14 crowded | advmod |
| 14 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 getting | xcomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 birds | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 birds | det |
| 17 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 crowded | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 animals | cc |
| 19 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 birds | conj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 fallen | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fallen | aux |
| 22 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 birds | acl:relcl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fallen | obl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 were | punct |
| 26 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 were | expl |
| 27 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | parataxis |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 Duck | det |
| 29 | Duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 were | nsubj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Dodo | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 Dodo | det |
| 32 | Dodo | Dodo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Duck | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Lory | punct |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 Lory | det |
| 35 | Lory | Lory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Dodo | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 Eaglet | cc |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 Eaglet | det |
| 38 | Eaglet | Eaglet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Dodo | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 creatures | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 creatures | cc |
| 41 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 creatures | amod |
| 42 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 creatures | amod |
| 43 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 creatures | amod |
| 44 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 Duck | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | history | high time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | get | past · progressive | the pool | crowded property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | fall | past · perfect | the birds and animals | history | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into it=Result | ||||
| 5 | be | past | a Duck and a Dodo and a Lory and a Eaglet and several other curious creatures | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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