Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 32
Still she went on growing, and, as a last resource, she put one arm out of the window, and one foot up the chimney, and said to herself “Now I can do no more, whatever happens.
Who acts: thing, whatever · What happens: go, grow, put, say, do, happen · To what, where: one foot, one arm, window, thing, more · 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, whatever), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 growing | mark |
| 5 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 put | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 and | punct |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 resource | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 resource | det |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 resource | amod |
| 12 | resource | resource | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 resource | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 put | nsubj |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 arm | nummod |
| 17 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 window | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 window | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 window | det |
| 21 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 foot | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 foot | cc |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 foot | nummod |
| 25 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 chimney | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 chimney | det |
| 28 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 foot | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 said | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 said | cc |
| 31 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 herself | case |
| 33 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 said | obl |
| 34 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 do | punct |
| 35 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 do | advmod |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 do | nsubj |
| 37 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 do | aux |
| 38 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 said | ccomp |
| 39 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 40 more | det |
| 40 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 do | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 happens | punct |
| 42 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 happens | nsubj |
| 43 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 do | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | thing | one foot up the chimney | still | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | grow | gerund | thing not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | put | past | thing | one arm | the window | as a last resource | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arm=Theme out window=Destination | ||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | thing not said here | thing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | do in a quote | can | thing | no more | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | happen in a quote | present | whatever | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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