Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 153

“Now, I’ll manage better this time,” she said to herself, and began by taking the little golden key, and unlocking the door that led into the garden.

Who acts: Alice, door · What happens: manage, say, begin, take, unlock, lead · To what, where: Alice, little golden key, door, garden · 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, door), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 manage	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 manage	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 manage	nsubj
5	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 manage	aux
6	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
7	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 manage	advmod
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 manage	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 manage	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 manage	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 herself	case
15	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 began	cc
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
19	by	by	SCONJ	_	20 taking	mark
20	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 began	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 key	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 key	amod
23	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 key	amod
24	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taking	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 unlocking	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 unlocking	cc
27	unlocking	unlock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 taking	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 door	det
29	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 unlocking	obj
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 led	nsubj
31	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 door	acl:relcl
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 garden	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 garden	det
34	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 led	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	manage in a quote	future	Alice				now; time	well property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Alice		Alice				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic
3	begin	past	Alice not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	take	gerund	Alice not said here	the little golden key					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme
5	unlock	gerund	Alice not said here	the door					vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
6	lead	past	the door			the garden			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into garden=Destination

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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