Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 117

However, I’ve got back to my right size: the next thing is, to get into that beautiful garden—how _is_ that to be done, I wonder?”

Who acts: I, next thing, that · What happens: get back, be, do, wonder · To what, where: beautiful garden

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, next thing, that), 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	However	however	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
4	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 got	aux
5	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 size	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 size	nmod:poss
9	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 size	amod
10	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 get	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 thing	det
13	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thing	amod
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 get	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 get	cop
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 get	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 get	mark
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 got	parataxis
19	into	into	ADP	_	22 garden	case
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 garden	det
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 garden	amod
22	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 get	obl
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 get	punct
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 done	advmod
25	_	_	PUNCT	_	24 how	punct
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 how	cop
27	_	_	PUNCT	_	24 how	punct
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 how	nsubj
29	to	to	PART	_	31 done	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 done	aux:pass
31	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 wonder	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 done	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 wonder	nsubj
34	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 get	advcl
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 get	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	get back	present · perfect	I		to my right size result; however property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to size=Result
2	is	present	the next thing	that beautiful garden	get property	tree rules
3	is	present	that		how property	tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive · passive	I not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»
5	wonder speech: ask	present	I			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: 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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