Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 19

And she began fancying the sort of thing that would happen: “‘Miss Alice!

Who acts: Dinah, thing · What happens: begin, fancy, happen, sort · To what, where: sort, thing

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 (Dinah, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 began	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fancying	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 began	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sort	det
6	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fancying	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 thing	case
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sort	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 happen	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 happen	aux
11	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 thing	acl:relcl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 Alice	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 Alice	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 Miss	punct
15	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Alice	compound
16	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 began	conj
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	begin	past	Dinah		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	fancy	gerund	Dinah not said here	the sort of thing	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus
3	happen	would	thing		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sort			thing	nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/19/