Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 51
The Duchess took her choice, and was gone in a moment.
Who acts: Duchess · What happens: take, be · To what, where: choice
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Duchess | det |
| 2 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 choice | nmod:poss |
| 5 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gone | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gone | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gone | cop |
| 9 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 moment | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 moment | det |
| 12 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Duchess | Duchess's choice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Duchess not said here | moment | gone property | 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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