Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 102
As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.”
What happens: turn out · To what, where: toes
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 duck | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 duck | det |
| 3 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turns | obl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 eyelids | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyelids | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyelids | eyelid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 duck | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Trims | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 Trims | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 Trims | nsubj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 nose | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 nose | nmod:poss |
| 12 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 he | nmod |
| 13 | Trims | Trim | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 duck | nmod |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 belt | nmod:poss |
| 15 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Trims | appos |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 buttons | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 buttons | nmod:poss |
| 18 | buttons | button | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 belt | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 turns | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 turns | cc |
| 21 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 turns | compound:prt |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 toes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 turns | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 turns | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 turns | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn out | present | Tis's toes | as a duck with duck's eyelids Trims | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent toe=Result as duck=Attribute |
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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