Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 48
Just at this moment Alice felt a very curious sensation, which puzzled her a good deal until she made out what it was: she was beginning to grow larger again, and she thought at first she would get up and leave the court; but on second thoughts she decided to remain where she was as long as there was room for her.
Who acts: Alice, curious sensation, room · What happens: feel, puzzle, make out, begin, grow, think · To what, where: curious sensation, Alice, court, second thoughts · 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, curious sensation, room), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 6 felt | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 felt | obl |
| 5 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 felt | nsubj |
| 6 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sensation | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 curious | advmod |
| 9 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sensation | amod |
| 10 | sensation | sensation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 felt | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 puzzled | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 puzzled | nsubj |
| 13 | puzzled | puzzle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sensation | acl:relcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 puzzled | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 deal | det |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 deal | amod |
| 17 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 puzzled | obj |
| 18 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 20 made | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 made | nsubj |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 felt | advcl |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 made | compound:prt |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 made | obj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 was | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 what | acl:relcl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 beginning | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 beginning | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 beginning | aux |
| 28 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 made | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 grow | mark |
| 30 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 beginning | xcomp |
| 31 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 grow | xcomp |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 30 grow | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 thought | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 thought | cc |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 thought | nsubj |
| 36 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 felt | conj |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 first | case |
| 38 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 41 get | obl |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 get | nsubj |
| 40 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 get | aux |
| 41 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 thought | ccomp |
| 42 | up | up | ADP | _ | 41 get | compound:prt |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 leave | cc |
| 44 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 get | conj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 court | det |
| 46 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 leave | obj |
| 47 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 53 decided | punct |
| 48 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 53 decided | cc |
| 49 | on | on | ADP | _ | 51 thoughts | case |
| 50 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 51 thoughts | amod |
| 51 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 decided | obl |
| 52 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 decided | nsubj |
| 53 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 felt | conj |
| 54 | to | to | PART | _ | 55 remain | mark |
| 55 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 53 decided | xcomp |
| 56 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 60 long | advmod |
| 57 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 60 long | nsubj |
| 58 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 60 long | cop |
| 59 | as | as | ADV | _ | 60 long | advmod |
| 60 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 55 remain | advmod |
| 61 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 63 was | mark |
| 62 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 63 was | expl |
| 63 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 60 long | advcl |
| 64 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 was | nsubj |
| 65 | for | for | ADP | _ | 66 her | case |
| 66 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 64 room | nmod |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Alice | a curious sensation | moment | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sensation=Theme | |||
| 2 | puzzle | past | a curious sensation | Alice | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer deal=Result | ||||
| 3 | make out | past | Alice | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | begin | past · progressive | Alice | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | grow | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | again | large property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | Alice | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | get up | would | Alice | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | leave | infinitive | Alice not said here | the court | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Theme | ||||
| 9 | decide | past | Alice | second thoughts | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 10 | remain not said to happen | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 11 | is | past | Alice | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 12 | be | past | room for Alice | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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