Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 30

Alas! it was too late to wish that!

Who acts: it · What happens: be, wish · To what, where: that

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 (it), 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	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	6 late	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Alas	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 late	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 late	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 late	advmod
6	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 wish	mark
8	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 late	csubj
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 wish	obj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 late	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					late property	tree rules
2	wish	to-infinitive		that					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme

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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