Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 10
First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs.
Who acts: Alice, well · What happens: try, look down, make out, come, be, see · To what, where: anything, sides, maps, pictures, pegs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, well), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 tried | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tried | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tried | nsubj |
| 4 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tried | xcomp |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 look | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 make | cc |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 look | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 make | compound:prt |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 coming | obj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 coming | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 coming | aux |
| 14 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 make | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 coming | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dark | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 dark | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 dark | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 dark | cop |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 dark | advmod |
| 21 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tried | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 see | mark |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 dark | advcl |
| 24 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 see | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 looked | punct |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 looked | advmod |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 looked | nsubj |
| 28 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tried | parataxis |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 sides | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sides | det |
| 31 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 looked | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 well | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 well | det |
| 34 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sides | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 noticed | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 noticed | cc |
| 37 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 looked | conj |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 filled | mark |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 filled | nsubj |
| 40 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 filled | aux:pass |
| 41 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 noticed | ccomp |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 cupboards | case |
| 43 | cupboards | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 filled | obl |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 shelves | cc |
| 45 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 shelves | compound |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 book | punct |
| 47 | shelves | shelf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 cupboards | conj |
| 48 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 53 saw | punct |
| 49 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 53 saw | advmod |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 there | cc |
| 51 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 49 here | conj |
| 52 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 saw | nsubj |
| 53 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tried | conj |
| 54 | maps | map | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 saw | obj |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 pictures | cc |
| 56 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 maps | conj |
| 57 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 56 pictures | acl |
| 58 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 59 pegs | case |
| 59 | pegs | peg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 hung | obl |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Alice | first property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | look down not said to happen | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | make out | infinitive | Alice not said here | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | come | past · progressive | Alice | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | well | dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | well not said here | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | look | past | Alice | then | at the sides of the well | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at side=Theme | |||
| 8 | notice | past | Alice not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | fill | past · passive | sides = side | with cupboards and book shelves | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with cupboard=Instrument | ||||
| 10 | see | past | Alice | maps and pictures | here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer map=Stimulus | |||
| 11 | hang | participle | pictures not said here | pegs | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon peg=Location |
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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