Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 91
She was a little nervous about it just at first, the two creatures got so close to her, one on each side, and opened their eyes and mouths so _very_ wide, but she gained courage as she went on.
Who acts: Alice, two creatures · What happens: be, get, open, gain, go on · To what, where: eyes, courage
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, two creatures), 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 | 5 nervous | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 nervous | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 little | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 nervous | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | nervous | nervous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 nervous | obl |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 first | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 first | case |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 nervous | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 creatures | det |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 creatures | nummod |
| 14 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 got | nsubj |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 nervous | parataxis |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 close | advmod |
| 17 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 got | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 close | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 got | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 23 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 side | det |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 one | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 opened | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 opened | cc |
| 27 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 nervous | parataxis |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 29 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 opened | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 mouths | cc |
| 31 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 eyes | conj |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 _ | advmod |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 opened | punct |
| 34 | very | very | ADV | _ | 35 _ | advmod |
| 35 | _ | _ | ADV | _ | 36 wide | advmod |
| 36 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 opened | advcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 gained | punct |
| 38 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 gained | cc |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 gained | nsubj |
| 40 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 nervous | parataxis |
| 41 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 gained | obj |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 went | mark |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 went | nsubj |
| 44 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 gained | advcl |
| 45 | on | on | ADV | _ | 44 went | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 nervous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Alice | about Rabbit; a little obl:unmarked; first, nervous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past | the two creatures | close property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | open | past | creatures's eyes and mouths | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | |||||
| 4 | gain | past | Alice | courage | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go on | past | Alice | vn function-105.2.1 «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.
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