Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 35

“It was much pleasanter at home,” thought poor Alice, “when one wasn’t always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits.

Who acts: bottle, pleasanter, one, mice · What happens: be, think, not grow, order about · To what, where: home, poor Alice · 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 (bottle, pleasanter, one, mice), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 pleasanter	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pleasanter	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleasanter	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 pleasanter	advmod
5	pleasanter	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 thought	nsubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 home	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pleasanter	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pleasanter	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 pleasanter	punct
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Alice	amod
12	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 thought	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 growing	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 growing	punct
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 growing	mark
16	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 growing	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 growing	aux
18	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 growing	advmod
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	20 growing	advmod
20	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 thought	conj
21	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 growing	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 smaller	cc
23	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 larger	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ordered	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ordered	cc
26	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 ordered	aux:pass
27	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 thought	parataxis
28	about	about	ADP	_	27 ordered	obl
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 mice	case
30	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 ordered	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 rabbits	cc
32	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 mice	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	bottle		home	pleasant property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	pleasanter	poor Alice			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent alice=Attribute clause=Theme
3	not grow in a quote	past · progressive	one			always, large property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	order about in a quote	gerund · passive	mice and rabbits				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=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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