Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 116

“And yet what a dear little puppy it was!” said Alice, as she leant against a buttercup to rest herself, and fanned herself with one of the leaves: “I should have liked teaching it tricks very much, if—if I’d only been the right size to do it!

Who acts: I · What happens: be, say, rest, fan, like, teach · To what, where: dear little puppy, Alice, puppy, right size · 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 (I), 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	_	4 what	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 what	cc
3	yet	yet	ADV	_	4 what	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 said	nsubj:outer
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 puppy	det
6	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 puppy	amod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 puppy	amod
8	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 what	nsubj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 was	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 puppy	cop
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 leant	punct
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 leant	case
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 leant	compound
18	leant	leant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Alice	appos
19	against	against	ADP	_	21 buttercup	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 buttercup	det
21	buttercup	buttercup	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 leant	nmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 rest	mark
23	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	advcl
24	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 rest	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fanned	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fanned	cc
27	fanned	fan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
28	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 fanned	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 one	case
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 fanned	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 leaves	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 leaves	det
33	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 one	nmod
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	39 liked	punct
35	“	"	PUNCT	_	39 liked	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 liked	nsubj
37	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 liked	aux
38	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 liked	aux
39	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 tricks	csubj:pass
40	teaching	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 liked	xcomp
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 teaching	obj
42	tricks	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	parataxis
43	very	very	ADV	_	44 much	advmod
44	much	much	ADV	_	42 tricks	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 tricks	punct
46	if	if	SCONJ	_	55 size	mark
47	—	-	PUNCT	_	55 size	punct
48	if	if	SCONJ	_	55 size	mark
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 size	nsubj
50	’d	'd	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 size	cop
51	only	only	ADV	_	55 size	advmod
52	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	55 size	cop
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 size	det
54	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 size	amod
55	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 tricks	parataxis
56	to	to	PART	_	57 do	mark
57	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 size	acl
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 do	obj
59	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past		a dear little puppy			tree rules
2	say speech: express	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	rest	to-infinitive		Alice			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Theme
4	fan	past		Alice		with one of the leaves	tree rules
5	like in a quote	should · perfect	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	teach speech: other not said to happen, in a quote	gerund	I not said here		puppy		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
7	trick in a quote	present					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	I	the right size			tree rules
9	do in a quote	to-infinitive		puppy			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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