Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 112
Alice watched the White Rabbit as he fumbled over the list, feeling very curious to see what the next witness would be like, “—for they haven’t got much evidence _yet_,” she said to herself.
Who acts: Alice, Rabbit, King · What happens: watch, fumble, feel, see, not get, say · To what, where: White Rabbit, list, much evidence, Alice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, Rabbit, King), 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 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Rabbit | det |
| 4 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Rabbit | amod |
| 5 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 watched | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 fumbled | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fumbled | nsubj |
| 8 | fumbled | fumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 watched | advcl |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 list | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 list | det |
| 11 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fumbled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 feeling | punct |
| 13 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 fumbled | conj |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 curious | advmod |
| 15 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feeling | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 curious | advcl |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 witness | det |
| 20 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 witness | amod |
| 21 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 would | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 what | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 like | cop |
| 24 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 22 would | discourse |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 like | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 got | punct |
| 27 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 got | punct |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 got | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 got | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 got | aux |
| 31 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 got | advmod |
| 32 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 would | ccomp |
| 33 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 evidence | amod |
| 34 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 got | obj |
| 35 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 got | punct |
| 36 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 32 got | advmod |
| 37 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 got | punct |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 got | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 got | punct |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 said | nsubj |
| 41 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 would | parataxis |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 herself | case |
| 43 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 41 said | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | Alice | the White Rabbit | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fumble | past | Rabbit | the list | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over list=Location | ||||
| 3 | feel | gerund | Rabbit not said here | curious property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | Rabbit not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | not get in a quote | present · perfect | King | much evidence | yet | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer evidence=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Alice | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient |
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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