Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 38

When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!

Who acts: I, kind · What happens: use, read, fancy, not happen, be · To what, where: fairy tales, middle

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 (I, kind), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 used	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 used	nsubj
3	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fancied	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 read	mark
5	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 used	advcl
6	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tales	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 fairy	punct
8	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 read	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 used	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 fancied	nsubj
11	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 kind	det
13	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 happened	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 thing	case
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kind	nmod
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 happened	advmod
17	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fancied	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 here	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 here	cc
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 here	advmod
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 happened	conj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 middle	nsubj
23	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 middle	cop
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 middle	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 middle	det
26	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 here	parataxis
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 one	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 middle	nmod
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 fancied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	past	I				vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	read	to-infinitive	I not said here	fairy tales			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Topic
3	fancy	past	I				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	not happen	past	that kind of thing				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	I		the middle	of one	tree rules

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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