Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 75

Alice began to feel very uneasy: to be sure, she had not as yet had any dispute with the Queen, but she knew that it might happen any minute, “and then,” thought she, “what would become of me?

Who acts: Alice, it · What happens: begin, feel, be, have, not have, know · To what, where: dispute · 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, it), 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 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 feel	mark
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 uneasy	advmod
6	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 sure	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	10 sure	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 sure	cop
10	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 began	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sure	ccomp
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 had	advmod
15	as	as	ADV	_	17 had	advmod
16	yet	yet	ADV	_	17 had	advmod
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 had	ccomp
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 dispute	det
19	dispute	dispute	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 Queen	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Queen	det
22	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 dispute	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 knew	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 knew	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 knew	nsubj
26	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 happen	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 happen	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 happen	aux
30	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 knew	ccomp
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 minute	det
32	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 happen	obl:unmarked
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 thought	punct
34	“	"	PUNCT	_	39 thought	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 thought	cc
36	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 thought	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 then	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	36 then	punct
39	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 happen	conj
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 become	nsubj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 become	punct
42	“	"	PUNCT	_	45 become	punct
43	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	45 become	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 become	aux
45	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 thought	ccomp
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 me	case
47	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 become	obl
48	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Alice				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	feel	to-infinitive	Alice not said here			uneasy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	to-infinitive				sure property	tree rules
4	have	past	Alice				tree rules
5	not have	past	Alice not said here	any dispute	yet	with the Queen	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dispute=Patient
6	know	past	Alice				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	happen	might	it		minute		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	think speech: other	past			then		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	become in a quote	would	Alice			of me	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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