Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 6
She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and was a little startled when she heard her voice close to her ear.
Who acts: pepper · What happens: forget, startle, hear · To what, where: Duchess, little, voice
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 (pepper), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 forgotten | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgotten | aux |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 forgotten | advmod |
| 4 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Duchess | det |
| 6 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 forgotten | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forgotten | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 startled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 startled | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 startled | aux:pass |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 little | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 startled | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | startled | startle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 forgotten | conj |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 heard | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 heard | nsubj |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 startled | advcl |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 voice | nmod:poss |
| 20 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | obj |
| 21 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 heard | xcomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 ear | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 ear | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 close | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past · perfect | pepper | the Duchess | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | startle | past · passive | pepper not said here | a little | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | pepper | pepper's voice | close property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
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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