Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 4

Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that, in her haste, she had put the Lizard in head downwards, and the poor little thing was waving its tail about in a melancholy way, being quite unable to move.

Who acts: Alice, poor little thing · What happens: look, see, put, wave, be, move · To what, where: that, Lizard, head, tail

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, poor little thing), 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 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	7 box	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 box	det
5	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 box	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 jury	punct
7	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 saw	cc
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 saw	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 haste	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 haste	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 haste	nmod:poss
15	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 put	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 put	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 put	aux
19	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 haste	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Lizard	det
21	Lizard	Lizard	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 put	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 head	case
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	obl
24	downwards	downwards	ADV	_	19 put	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 waving	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 waving	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 thing	det
28	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 thing	amod
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 thing	amod
30	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 waving	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 waving	aux
32	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 put	advcl
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 tail	nmod:poss
34	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 waving	obj
35	about	about	ADV	_	32 waving	advmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 way	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 way	det
38	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 way	compound
39	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 waving	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 unable	punct
41	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 unable	cop
42	quite	quite	ADV	_	43 unable	advmod
43	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 saw	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 move	mark
45	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 unable	xcomp
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	Alice			at the jury box	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at box=Theme
2	see	past		that			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
3	put	past · perfect	Alice	the Lizard	head	downwards property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lizard=Theme in head=Destination
4	wave	past · progressive	the poor little thing	thing's tail		in a melancholy way; about property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Patient in way=Theme
5	is	gerund				unable property	tree rules
6	move	to-infinitive					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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