Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 46

But here, to Alice’s great surprise, the Duchess’s voice died away, even in the middle of her favourite word ‘moral,’ and the arm that was linked into hers began to tremble.

Who acts: voice, arm, Alice, Duchess · What happens: die away, link, begin, tremble, surprise, word · To what, where: arm

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 (voice, arm, Alice, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 here	cc
2	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 died	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 here	punct
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 surprise	case
5	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 surprise	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Alice	case
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 surprise	amod
8	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 here	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 surprise	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Duchess	det
11	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 voice	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 Duchess	case
13	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 died	nsubj
14	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 died	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 middle	punct
17	even	even	ADV	_	20 middle	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 middle	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 middle	det
20	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 died	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 word	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 word	nmod:poss
23	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 word	amod
24	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 middle	nmod
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 moral	punct
26	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 word	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 died	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 died	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 began	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 arm	det
31	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 began	nsubj
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 linked	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 linked	aux:pass
34	linked	link	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 arm	acl:relcl
35	into	into	ADP	_	36 hers	case
36	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 linked	obl
37	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 died	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 tremble	mark
39	tremble	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 began	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	die away	past	the Duchess's voice		here	in the middle of Duchess's favourite word and moral; away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in middle=Attribute
2	link	past · passive		the arm		into Duchess	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient into her=Co-Patient
3	begin	past	the arm				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	tremble	to-infinitive	the arm not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	surprise		Alice				nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
6	word		Duchess				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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