Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 12
And she squeezed herself up closer to Alice’s side as she spoke.
Who acts: Duchess · What happens: squeeze up, speak · To what, where: Duchess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duchess), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 squeezed | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 squeezed | nsubj |
| 3 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 squeezed | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 squeezed | compound:prt |
| 6 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 squeezed | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 8 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 side | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Alice | case |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 closer | obl |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 spoke | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 spoke | nsubj |
| 13 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 squeezed | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 squeezed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squeeze up | past | Duchess | Duchess | close property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | Duchess | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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