Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 109
“The first thing I’ve got to do,” said Alice to herself, as she wandered about in the wood, “is to grow to my right size again; and the second thing is to find my way into that lovely garden.
Who acts: first thing, Alice, second thing · What happens: get, do, say, wander, be · To what, where: first thing, Alice, wood, lovely garden · 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 (first thing, Alice, second thing), 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 | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thing | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 thing | amod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 6 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | aux |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 got | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 herself | case |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wandered | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 wandered | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wandered | nsubj |
| 19 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 20 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 wandered | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 wood | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wood | det |
| 23 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wandered | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 grow | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 grow | punct |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 grow | cop |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 grow | mark |
| 28 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wandered | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 size | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 size | nmod:poss |
| 31 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 size | amod |
| 32 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 grow | obl |
| 33 | again | again | ADV | _ | 32 size | advmod |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 find | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 find | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 thing | det |
| 37 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 38 thing | amod |
| 38 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 find | nsubj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 find | cop |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 find | mark |
| 41 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 42 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 way | nmod:poss |
| 43 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 find | obj |
| 44 | into | into | ADP | _ | 47 garden | case |
| 45 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 47 garden | det |
| 46 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 garden | amod |
| 47 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 find | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the first thing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | the first thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Alice | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | wander | past | Alice | the wood | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | Alice not said here | to my right size; grow property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | the second thing | that lovely garden | find property | 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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