Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 34
Luckily for Alice, the little magic bottle had now had its full effect, and she grew no larger: still it was very uncomfortable, and, as there seemed to be no sort of chance of her ever getting out of the room again, no wonder she felt unhappy.
Who acts: Alice, bottle, sort · What happens: have, grow, be, seem, get out, feel · To what, where: full effect, sort, room, wonder
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 (Alice, bottle, sort), 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 | Luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 3 Alice | advmod |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 Alice | case |
| 3 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 had | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Alice | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bottle | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bottle | amod |
| 7 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bottle | compound |
| 8 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | aux |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 had | advmod |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 effect | nmod:poss |
| 13 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 effect | amod |
| 14 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grew | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 grew | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 grew | nsubj |
| 18 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | conj |
| 19 | no | no | ADV | _ | 20 larger | advmod |
| 20 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 grew | xcomp |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 uncomfortable | punct |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 uncomfortable | advmod |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 uncomfortable | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 uncomfortable | cop |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 uncomfortable | advmod |
| 26 | uncomfortable | uncomfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 had | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 seemed | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 seemed | cc |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 seemed | punct |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 seemed | mark |
| 31 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 seemed | advmod |
| 32 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 uncomfortable | parataxis |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 sort | mark |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 sort | cop |
| 35 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 36 sort | det |
| 36 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 seemed | xcomp |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 chance | case |
| 38 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sort | nmod |
| 39 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 42 getting | mark |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 getting | nmod:poss |
| 41 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 42 getting | advmod |
| 42 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 sort | acl |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 46 room | case |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 room | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 room | det |
| 46 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 getting | obl |
| 47 | again | again | ADV | _ | 42 getting | advmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 wonder | punct |
| 49 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 50 wonder | det |
| 50 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sort | conj |
| 51 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 felt | nsubj |
| 52 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 wonder | acl:relcl |
| 53 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 felt | xcomp |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past · perfect | Alice | bottle's full effect | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient | |||
| 2 | grow | past | Alice | large property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | bottle | still | uncomfortable property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | seem | past | there | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | no sort and no wonder | of chance | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | get out | gerund | no sort and no wonder not said here | the room | ever; again | tree rules | |||
| 7 | feel | past | Alice | no wonder not said here | unhappy property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wonder=Theme | |||
| 8 | effect | bottle | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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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