Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 72

Alice looked down at them, and considered a little before she gave her answer.

Who acts: Alice · What happens: look down, consider, give, answer · To what, where: little, answer

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: 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	down	down	ADP	_	2 looked	compound:prt
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 considered	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 considered	cc
8	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 little	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 considered	obl:unmarked
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 gave	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	nsubj
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 considered	advcl
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 answer	nmod:poss
15	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look down	past	Alice		at shoes = shoe	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
2	consider	past	Alice not said here	a little		vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
3	give	past	Alice	Alice's answer		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme
4	answer		Alice			nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=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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