Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 84

(a loud crash)—“Now, who did that?—It was Bill, I fancy—Who’s to go down the chimney?—Nay, _I_ shan’t!

Who acts: loud crash, crash, Alice · What happens: not do, be, fancy, go down · To what, where: that, Bill, chimney

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 (loud crash, crash, Alice), 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	_	4 crash	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 crash	det
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crash	amod
4	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 did	nsubj
5	)	)	PUNCT	_	4 crash	punct
6	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 did	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 did	punct
8	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 did	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 did	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 did	nsubj
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 did	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 did	punct
14	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 Bill	punct
15	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 Bill	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Bill	cop
17	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 did	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fancy	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 fancy	nsubj
20	fancy	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 Bill	parataxis
21	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 ’s	punct
22	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 ’s	nsubj
23	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 fancy	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 go	mark
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 ’s	xcomp
26	down	down	ADP	_	28 chimney	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 chimney	det
28	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 go	obl
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 fancy	punct
30	—	-	PUNCT	_	31 Nay	punct
31	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	17 Bill	discourse
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Nay	punct
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 did	punct
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 _	nsubj
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 did	punct
36	sha	sha	X	_	37 n’t	dep
37	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 did	advmod
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not do in a quote	past	a loud crash	that	now	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
2	is a in a quote	past	crash	Bill		tree rules
3	fancy in a quote	present	Alice			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	go down in a quote	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	the chimney		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient chimney=Extent

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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