Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 113
Imagine her surprise, when the White Rabbit read out, at the top of his shrill little voice, the name “Alice!”
Who acts: you, White Rabbit, Alice · What happens: imagine, read out, surprise · To what, where: surprise, top
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 (you, White Rabbit, 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 | Imagine | imagine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 3 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Imagine | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 read | punct |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 read | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Rabbit | det |
| 7 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Rabbit | amod |
| 8 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 read | nsubj |
| 9 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 surprise | parataxis |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 read | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 top | punct |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 top | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 top | det |
| 14 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Imagine | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 voice | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 voice | nmod:poss |
| 17 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 voice | amod |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 voice | amod |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 top | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 name | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 name | det |
| 22 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 top | conj |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Alice | punct |
| 24 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 name | appos |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 Alice | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 top | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | imperative | you not said here | Alice's surprise | the top of Rabbit's shrill little voice and the name | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot surprise=Theme | |||
| 2 | read out | past | the White Rabbit | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | surprise | Alice | nom surprise «feeling 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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