Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 47
Alice looked up, and there stood the Queen in front of them, with her arms folded, frowning like a thunderstorm.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: look up, stand, fold, frown · To what, where: Queen, front, arms
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), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 looked | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stood | cc |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 stood | advmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Queen | det |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 front | case |
| 11 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 front | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 folded | punct |
| 15 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 18 folded | mark |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 arms | nmod:poss |
| 17 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 folded | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | folded | fold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stood | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 frowning | punct |
| 20 | frowning | frown | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 folded | advcl |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 thunderstorm | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 thunderstorm | det |
| 23 | thunderstorm | thunderstorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 frowning | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | Alice | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | Alice not said here | the Queen | front of word; there | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent queen=Theme in front=Destination | |||
| 3 | fold | participle · passive | Alice's arms | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | frown | gerund | like a thunderstorm | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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