Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 109

Alice tried to fancy to herself what such an extraordinary way of living would be like, but it puzzled her too much, so she went on: “But why did they live at the bottom of a well?”

Who acts: Alice, extraordinary way, way, names · What happens: try, fancy, live, puzzle, go on · To what, where: Alice, bottom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, extraordinary way, way, names), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 fancy	mark
4	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 herself	case
6	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 fancy	obl
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 fancy	parataxis
8	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	11 way	det:predet
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 way	det
10	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 way	amod
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 what	nsubj
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 living	mark
13	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 way	acl
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 like	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 like	cop
16	like	like	INTJ	_	11 way	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 puzzled	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 puzzled	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 puzzled	nsubj
20	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	parataxis
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 puzzled	obj
22	too	too	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADV	_	20 puzzled	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	27 went	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 went	nsubj
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	parataxis
28	on	on	ADV	_	27 went	advmod
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 why	punct
31	But	but	CCONJ	_	32 why	cc
32	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	27 went	parataxis
33	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 why	advcl:relcl
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 live	nsubj
35	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 did	parataxis
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 bottom	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 bottom	det
38	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 live	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 well	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 well	det
41	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bottom	nmod
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	32 why	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	try	past	Alice				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	fancy not said to happen	to-infinitive	Alice not said here		Alice		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	live	gerund	such extraordinary way not said here				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	puzzle	past	way	Alice			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
5	go on	past	Alice				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	live in a quote	present	names = name			the bottom of a well	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bottom=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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