Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 55

Alice heard it say to itself “Then I’ll go round and get in at the window.”

Who acts: Alice, attempt · What happens: hear, say, go round, get in · To what, where: attempt, window · 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 (Alice, attempt), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 heard	ccomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 itself	case
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 say	obl
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
8	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 go	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
10	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	ccomp
12	round	round	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 get	cc
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	conj
15	in	in	ADV	_	14 get	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 window	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 window	det
18	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Alice					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	attempt	attempt				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to itself=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go round in a quote	future	attempt			then	round property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	get in in a quote	infinitive	attempt not said here		the window			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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