Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 91

And she began thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as pigs, and was just saying to herself, “if one only knew the right way to change them—” when she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off.

Who acts: Alice, one · What happens: begin, think, know, do, be, change · To what, where: other children, Alice, right way, creatures, Cheshire Cat, bough · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, one), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 began	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 began	xcomp
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 children	case
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 children	amod
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thinking	obl
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 children	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 do	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thinking	parataxis
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 well	advmod
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 do	advmod
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 pigs	case
17	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 do	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saying	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 saying	cc
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 saying	cop
21	just	just	ADV	_	22 saying	advmod
22	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 began	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 herself	case
24	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 saying	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 knew	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 knew	punct
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 knew	mark
28	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 knew	nsubj
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 knew	advmod
30	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 saying	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 way	det
32	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 way	amod
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 knew	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 change	mark
35	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 way	acl
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 change	obj
37	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct
39	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	44 startled	advmod
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 startled	nsubj:pass
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 startled	aux:pass
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 little	det
43	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 startled	obl:unmarked
44	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 began	conj
45	by	by	SCONJ	_	46 seeing	mark
46	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 startled	advcl
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Cat	det
48	Cheshire	Cheshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Cat	compound
49	Cat	Cat	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 seeing	obj
50	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 seeing	conj
51	on	on	ADP	_	53 bough	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 bough	det
53	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 sitting	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 tree	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 tree	det
56	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 bough	nmod
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 few	det
58	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 sitting	parataxis
59	yards	yards	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	58 few	nsubj
60	off	off	ADP	_	58 few	compound:prt
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Alice					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	gerund	Alice not said here				over other children	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	know	past	Alice	other children not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
4	do	might					as pigs; well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	be speech: assert	past			Alice		say property	tree rules
6	know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	one	the right way				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
7	change in a quote	to-infinitive	one not said here	creatures = creature				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
8	startle	past · passive		Alice			a little obl:unmarked	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
9	see	gerund		the Cheshire Cat				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus
10	sit	gerund				a bough of a tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bough=Location

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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