Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 29
She hastily put down the bottle, saying to herself “That’s quite enough—I hope I shan’t grow any more—As it is, I can’t get out at the door—I do wish I hadn’t drunk quite so much!”
Who acts: thing, bottle · What happens: put down, say, hope, not grow, be, not get out · To what, where: bottle, thing, door, wish · 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 (thing, bottle), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 2 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 put | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bottle | det |
| 6 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saying | punct |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 put | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 herself | case |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 saying | obl |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 ’s | punct |
| 12 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 ’s | nsubj |
| 13 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 saying | advcl |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 enough | advmod |
| 15 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 13 ’s | advmod |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 hope | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 hope | nsubj |
| 18 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | parataxis |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 grow | nsubj |
| 20 | sha | sha | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 grow | aux |
| 21 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 grow | advmod |
| 22 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 hope | ccomp |
| 23 | any | any | ADV | _ | 24 more | advmod |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 grow | advmod |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
| 26 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 is | mark |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 is | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 get | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 is | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 get | nsubj |
| 31 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 get | aux |
| 32 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 get | advmod |
| 33 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 put | conj |
| 34 | out | out | ADV | _ | 33 get | advmod |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 door | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 door | det |
| 37 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 get | obl |
| 38 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 do | punct |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 do | nsubj |
| 40 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 get | parataxis |
| 41 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 do | obj |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 drunk | nsubj |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 drunk | aux |
| 44 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 drunk | advmod |
| 45 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 41 wish | acl:relcl |
| 46 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 47 so | advmod |
| 47 | so | so | ADV | _ | 48 much | advmod |
| 48 | much | much | ADV | _ | 40 do | advmod |
| 49 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 40 do | punct |
| 50 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put down | past | thing | the bottle | hastily property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | gerund | thing not said here | thing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | hope in a quote | present | thing | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not grow in a quote | thing | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | be in a quote | present | bottle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not get out in a quote | can | thing | the door | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | do in a quote | present | thing | wish | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | not drink in a quote | past · perfect | thing | wish not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=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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