Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 93
But her sister sat still just as she left her, leaning her head on her hand, watching the setting sun, and thinking of little Alice and all her wonderful Adventures, till she too began dreaming after a fashion, and this was her dream:—
Who acts: sister, Alice, this · What happens: sit, leave, lean, watch, think, begin · To what, where: Alice, head, hand, setting sun, dream
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 (sister, Alice, this), 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 | _ | 4 sat | cc |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 sat | advmod |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 left | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 left | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 left | nsubj |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 left | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 leaning | punct |
| 12 | leaning | lean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 left | advcl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leaning | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leaning | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 watching | punct |
| 19 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 leaning | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sun | det |
| 21 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sun | compound |
| 22 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 watching | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 thinking | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 thinking | cc |
| 25 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sat | advcl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Alice | case |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Alice | amod |
| 28 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 thinking | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Adventures | cc |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 Adventures | det:predet |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 Adventures | nmod:poss |
| 32 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Adventures | amod |
| 33 | Adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 Alice | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 began | punct |
| 35 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 38 began | mark |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 began | nsubj |
| 37 | too | too | ADV | _ | 38 began | advmod |
| 38 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 39 | dreaming | dream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 began | xcomp |
| 40 | after | after | ADP | _ | 42 fashion | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 fashion | det |
| 42 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 dreaming | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 dream | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 dream | cc |
| 45 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 48 dream | nsubj |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 dream | cop |
| 47 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 dream | nmod:poss |
| 48 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | conj |
| 49 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
| 50 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Alice's sister | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | sister | Alice | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lean | gerund | sister not said here | Alice's head | Alice's hand | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on hand=Destination | |||
| 4 | watch | gerund | sister not said here | the setting sun | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Theme | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | gerund | Alice's sister not said here | of little Alice and Alice's wonderful Adventures | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | begin | past | Alice | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | dream | gerund | Alice not said here | after a fashion | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | is a | past | this | Alice's dream | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | adventure | Alice | nom adventure «act 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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