Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 13

Alice did not much like keeping so close to her: first, because the Duchess was _very_ ugly; and secondly, because she was exactly the right height to rest her chin upon Alice’s shoulder, and it was an uncomfortably sharp chin.

Who acts: Alice, Duchess, chin · What happens: keep, be, rest · To what, where: right height, chin, shoulder, sharp chin

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 (Alice, Duchess, chin), 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	6 keeping	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keeping	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	6 keeping	advmod
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 keeping	mark
6	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 close	advmod
8	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keeping	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 close	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 first	punct
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 keeping	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 was	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 was	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Duchess	det
16	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 was	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ugly	cop
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	17 was	punct
19	very	very	ADV	_	21 ugly	advmod
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 ugly	punct
21	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keeping	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 secondly	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 secondly	cc
24	secondly	secondly	ADV	_	21 ugly	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 height	punct
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	32 height	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 height	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 height	cop
29	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	32 height	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 height	det
31	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 height	amod
32	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keeping	obl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 rest	mark
34	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 height	acl
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 chin	nmod:poss
36	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rest	obj
37	upon	upon	ADP	_	40 shoulder	case
38	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 shoulder	nmod:poss
39	’s	's	PART	_	38 Alice	case
40	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rest	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 chin	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 chin	cc
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 chin	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 chin	cop
45	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 chin	det
46	uncomfortably	uncomfortably	ADV	_	47 sharp	advmod
47	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 chin	amod
48	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keeping	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 keeping	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	Alice			close, first property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Alice not said here			secondly, ugly property	tree rules
3	is a	past	Duchess	the right height		exactly property	tree rules
4	rest	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	Duchess's chin	Alice's shoulder		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent chin=Theme upon shoulder=Location
5	is a	past	chin	a sharp chin			tree rules

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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