Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 72

Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet-ground in her life; it was all ridges and furrows; the balls were live hedgehogs, the mallets live flamingoes, and the soldiers had to double themselves up and to stand on their hands and feet, to make the arches.

Who acts: Alice, ground, balls, mallets, soldiers · What happens: think, not see, be, live, have, double up · To what, where: curious croquet ground, life, ridges, live hedgehogs, flamingoes, soldiers · 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, ground, balls, mallets), 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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seen	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 seen	advmod
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 ground	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ground	det
9	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ground	amod
10	croquet	croquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ground	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 croquet	punct
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seen	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 life	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 life	nmod:poss
15	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seen	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 ridges	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ridges	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ridges	cop
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 ridges	det
20	ridges	ridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thought	ccomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 furrows	cc
22	furrows	furrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ridges	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 hedgehogs	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 balls	det
25	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hedgehogs	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 hedgehogs	cop
27	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hedgehogs	amod
28	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thought	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 live	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mallets	det
31	mallets	mallet	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 live	nsubj
32	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 hedgehogs	conj
33	flamingoes	flamingoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 live	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 had	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 had	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 soldiers	det
37	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 had	nsubj
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 double	mark
40	double	double	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 had	xcomp
41	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 double	obj
42	up	up	ADP	_	40 double	compound:prt
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 stand	cc
44	to	to	PART	_	45 stand	mark
45	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 double	conj
46	on	on	ADP	_	48 hands	case
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 hands	nmod:poss
48	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 stand	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 feet	cc
50	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 hands	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 make	punct
52	to	to	PART	_	53 make	mark
53	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 stand	conj
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 arches	det
55	arches	arch	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 make	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Alice			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not see	past · perfect	Alice	such curious croquet ground	Alice's life	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ground=Stimulus
3	is a	past	ground	all ridges and furrows		tree rules
4	is a	past	the balls	live hedgehogs		tree rules
5	live	present	the mallets	flamingoes		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme flamingoe=Location
6	have	past	the soldiers			tree rules
7	double up	to-infinitive	the soldiers not said here	soldiers = soldier		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
8	stand	to-infinitive	the soldiers not said here		soldiers's hands and feet	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hand=Location
9	make	to-infinitive	the soldiers not said here	the arches		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset arch=Product

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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