Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 94

Last came a little feeble, squeaking voice, (“That’s Bill,” thought Alice,) “Well, I hardly know—No more, thank ye; I’m better now—but I’m a deal too flustered to tell you—all I know is, something comes at me like a Jack-in-the-box, and up I goes like a sky-rocket!”

Who acts: Last, That, Bill, all · What happens: come, squeak, be, think, know, thank · To what, where: voice, Bill, Alice, more, ye, deal · 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 (Last, That, Bill, all), 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	Last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 little	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feeble	obl:unmarked
5	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 squeaking	punct
7	squeaking	squeak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 came	advcl
8	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 squeaking	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Bill	punct
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 Bill	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 Bill	punct
12	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 Bill	nsubj
13	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 Bill	cop
14	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 thought	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Bill	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 Bill	punct
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
18	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 thought	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Alice	punct
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 Alice	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 know	punct
22	Well	well	INTJ	_	26 know	discourse
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Well	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 know	nsubj
25	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	26 know	advmod
26	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 thought	parataxis
27	—	-	PUNCT	_	29 more	punct
28	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 more	det
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 know	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 thank	punct
31	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 know	parataxis
32	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 thank	obj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 ’m	punct
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 ’m	nsubj
35	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
36	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 ’m	xcomp
37	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 ’m	advmod
38	—	-	PUNCT	_	41 ’m	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 ’m	cc
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 ’m	nsubj
41	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 ’m	conj
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 deal	det
43	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 ’m	obj
44	too	too	ADV	_	45 flustered	advmod
45	flustered	flustered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 deal	amod
46	to	to	PART	_	47 tell	mark
47	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 flustered	xcomp
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 tell	iobj
49	—	-	PUNCT	_	56 comes	punct
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	56 comes	nsubj
51	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 know	nsubj
52	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 all	acl:relcl
53	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 comes	cop
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 is	punct
55	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	56 comes	nsubj
56	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 ’m	parataxis
57	at	at	ADP	_	58 me	case
58	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 comes	obl
59	like	like	ADP	_	67 box	case
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	67 box	det
61	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	67 box	nsubj
62	-	-	PUNCT	_	67 box	punct
63	in	in	ADP	_	67 box	case
64	-	-	PUNCT	_	63 in	punct
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 box	det
66	-	-	PUNCT	_	65 the	punct
67	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 comes	obl
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 goes	punct
69	and	and	CCONJ	_	72 goes	cc
70	up	up	ADV	_	72 goes	advmod
71	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	72 goes	nsubj
72	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 comes	conj
73	like	like	ADP	_	77 rocket	case
74	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	77 rocket	det
75	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 rocket	compound
76	-	-	PUNCT	_	75 sky	punct
77	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 goes	obl
78	!	!	PUNCT	_	72 goes	punct
79	”	"	PUNCT	_	41 ’m	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Last				feeble property	tree rules
2	squeak	gerund	Last not said here	voice				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent voice=Theme
3	is a in a quote	present	That	Bill				tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	Bill	Alice				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent alice=Attribute clause=Theme
5	know in a quote	present	Bill	no more			hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus
6	thank speech: thank in a quote	present		ye				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Theme
7	be in a quote	present	Bill			now	good property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	be in a quote	present	Bill	a deal				vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot deal=Theme
9	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	Bill not said here		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
10	know in a quote	present	Bill					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
11	is in a quote	present	all				at Bill; like a box; come property	tree rules
12	go in a quote	present	Bill				like a sky rocket	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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