Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 23

Alice was rather doubtful whether she ought not to lie down on her face like the three gardeners, but she could not remember ever having heard of such a rule at processions; “and besides, what would be the use of a procession,” thought she, “if people had all to lie down upon their faces, so that they couldn’t see it?”

Who acts: Alice, people · What happens: be, not lie down, not remember, have, hear, beside · To what, where: face, use, faces · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, people), 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	4 doubtful	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 doubtful	cop
3	rather	rather	ADV	_	4 doubtful	advmod
4	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	10 lie	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lie	nsubj
7	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 lie	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 lie	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 lie	mark
10	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 doubtful	advcl
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 lie	compound:prt
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 face	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 face	nmod:poss
14	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lie	obl
15	like	like	ADP	_	18 gardeners	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gardeners	det
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 gardeners	nummod
18	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 face	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 remember	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 remember	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 remember	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 remember	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 remember	advmod
24	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 doubtful	conj
25	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	26 having	advmod
26	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 remember	ccomp
27	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 having	xcomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 rule	case
29	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	31 rule	det:predet
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 rule	det
31	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 heard	obl
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 processions	case
33	processions	procession	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 rule	nmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 besides	punct
35	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 besides	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 besides	cc
37	besides	beside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 doubtful	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 use	punct
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	43 use	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 use	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 use	cop
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 use	det
43	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 besides	ccomp
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 procession	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 procession	det
46	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 use	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 doubtful	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 doubtful	punct
49	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 doubtful	conj
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 thought	ccomp
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 had	punct
52	“	"	PUNCT	_	55 had	punct
53	if	if	SCONJ	_	55 had	mark
54	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 had	nsubj
55	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 she	parataxis
56	all	all	ADV	_	58 lie	advmod
57	to	to	PART	_	58 lie	mark
58	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 had	xcomp
59	down	down	ADV	_	58 lie	advmod
60	upon	upon	ADP	_	62 faces	case
61	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 faces	nmod:poss
62	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 lie	obl
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 see	punct
64	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	69 see	mark
65	that	that	SCONJ	_	64 so	fixed
66	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 see	nsubj
67	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	69 see	aux
68	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	69 see	advmod
69	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 lie	parataxis
70	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 see	obj
71	?	?	PUNCT	_	69 see	punct
72	”	"	PUNCT	_	55 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Alice				doubtful property	tree rules
2	not lie down	ought	Alice		Alice's face like the three gardeners			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on face=Location
3	not remember	could	Alice					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	have	gerund				ever		tree rules
5	hear	participle					of such rule at processions	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of rule=Stimulus
6	beside in a quote	present						tree rules
7	is a in a quote	would		the use			of a procession	tree rules
8	think speech: other	past	Alice not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	people					tree rules
10	lie down in a quote	to-infinitive	people not said here		people's faces		all, down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon face=Location
11	not see in a quote	could	people	use				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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