Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 44

There was not a moment to be lost: away went Alice like the wind, and was just in time to hear it say, as it turned a corner, “Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it’s getting!”

Who acts: moment, wind · What happens: not be, lose, go, be, hear, say · To what, where: Alice, wind, corner · 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 (moment, wind), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 moment	det
5	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 lost	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 lost	aux:pass
8	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 moment	acl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
10	away	away	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
12	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 went	obj
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 wind	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wind	det
15	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 time	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 time	cc
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 time	cop
19	just	just	ADV	_	21 time	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 time	case
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 hear	mark
23	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 time	acl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hear	obj
25	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 hear	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 turned	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 turned	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 turned	nsubj
29	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 say	ccomp
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 corner	det
31	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 turned	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 ears	punct
33	“	"	PUNCT	_	36 ears	punct
34	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	36 ears	discourse
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 ears	nmod:poss
36	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 corner	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 whiskers	cc
38	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 ears	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 ’s	punct
40	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	41 late	advmod
41	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 ’s	advmod
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 ’s	nsubj
43	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 corner	acl:relcl
44	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 ’s	ccomp
45	!	!	PUNCT	_	44 getting	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not be	past	a moment		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lose	to-infinitive · passive	a moment not said here					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»
3	go	past		Alice			like the wind; away property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location alice=Theme
4	is	past				in time		tree rules
5	hear	to-infinitive	a moment not said here	wind				tree rules
6	say speech: assert	infinitive	wind not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	turn	past	wind	a corner and my ears and whiskers				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme corner=Result
8	get in a quote	gerund	wind not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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