Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 99

After a minute or two, they began moving about again, and Alice heard the Rabbit say, “A barrowful will do, to begin with.”

Who acts: shriek, Alice, Rabbit, barrowful · What happens: begin, move about, hear, say, do · To what, where: Rabbit · 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 (shriek, Alice, Rabbit, barrowful), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 minute	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 minute	det
3	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 began	obl
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 two	cc
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 minute	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 minute	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 began	nsubj
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 began	xcomp
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 again	advmod
11	again	again	ADV	_	9 moving	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 heard	cc
14	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 heard	nsubj
15	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 began	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Rabbit	det
17	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heard	obj
18	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 Rabbit	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 do	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 do	punct
21	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 barrowful	det
22	barrowful	barrowful	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 do	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 do	aux
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 heard	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 begin	punct
26	to	to	PART	_	27 begin	mark
27	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 do	advcl
28	with	with	ADP	_	27 begin	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 do	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	begin	past	shriek		minute	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	move about	gerund	shriek not said here		again	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	past	Alice	the Rabbit		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present	the Rabbit not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	do in a quote	future	a barrowful			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	begin in a quote	to-infinitive	a barrowful not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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