Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 94

And here poor Alice began to cry again, for she felt very lonely and low-spirited.

Who acts: poor Alice, Alice · What happens: begin, cry, feel, spirit

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor Alice, Alice), 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	_	5 began	cc
2	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 poor	advmod
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Alice	amod
4	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cry	mark
7	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 cry	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 felt	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 felt	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 felt	nsubj
12	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	conj
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 lonely	advmod
14	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 felt	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 spirited	cc
16	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 spirited	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 low	punct
18	spirited	spirit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 lonely	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	poor Alice			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	poor Alice not said here	again		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	feel	past	Alice		lonely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	spirit	participle	Alice not said here			tree rules

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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