Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 67

Alice did not quite like the look of the creature, but on the whole she thought it would be quite as safe to stay with it as to go after that savage Queen: so she waited.

Who acts: Alice, it · What happens: not like, think, be, stay, go, wait · To what, where: look · Speech: someone speaks here

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, it), 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	5 like	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 like	advmod
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 like	advmod
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 look	det
7	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 like	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 creature	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 creature	det
10	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 thought	cc
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 whole	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 whole	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thought	obl
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thought	nsubj
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 like	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 safe	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 safe	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 safe	cop
21	quite	quite	ADV	_	23 safe	advmod
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 safe	advmod
23	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thought	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 stay	mark
25	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 safe	xcomp
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 stay	obl
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 go	mark
29	to	to	PART	_	30 go	mark
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 stay	advcl
31	after	after	ADP	_	33 savage	case
32	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 savage	det
33	savage	savage	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 go	obl
34	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 savage	appos
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 waited	punct
36	so	so	ADV	_	38 waited	advmod
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 waited	nsubj
38	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 like	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	Alice	the look of the creature			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot look=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	Alice			on the whole	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on whole=Topic
3	is	would	it			safe property	tree rules
4	stay	to-infinitive				with look	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with it=Location
5	go	to-infinitive			after that savage		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	wait	past	Alice				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/67/