Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 105

So she swallowed one of the cakes, and was delighted to find that she began shrinking directly.

Who acts: idea · What happens: swallow, be, find, begin, shrink · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idea), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 swallowed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swallowed	nsubj
3	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 swallowed	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 cakes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cakes	det
7	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 delighted	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 delighted	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 delighted	cop
11	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 swallowed	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 find	mark
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 delighted	advcl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 began	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 began	nsubj
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 find	ccomp
17	shrinking	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 began	xcomp
18	directly	directly	ADV	_	17 shrinking	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swallowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	swallow	past	idea	one of the cakes		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	is	past	idea not said here		delighted property	tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive	idea not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	begin	past	idea			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	shrink	gerund	idea not said here		directly property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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.

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