Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 3

But there seemed to be no chance of this, so she began looking at everything about her, to pass away the time.

Who acts: Alice · What happens: seem, be, begin, look, pass away · To what, where: chance

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 seemed	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 seemed	expl
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	7 chance	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 chance	cop
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 chance	det
7	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seemed	xcomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 this	case
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 chance	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 began	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 began	nsubj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seemed	conj
14	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 began	xcomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 everything	case
16	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 looking	obl
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 everything	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pass	punct
20	to	to	PART	_	21 pass	mark
21	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	parataxis
22	away	away	ADP	_	21 pass	compound:prt
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pass	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past			there			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive		no chance			of this	tree rules
3	begin	past	Alice					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	look	gerund	Alice not said here				at everything	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at everything=Theme
5	pass away	to-infinitive				time		vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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