Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 45
She was close behind it when she turned the corner, but the Rabbit was no longer to be seen: she found herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging from the roof.
Who acts: Alice, wind, row, lamps · What happens: be, turn, see, find, lit up, hang · To what, where: wind, corner, Rabbit, Alice, long low hall, roof
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, wind, row, lamps), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 it | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 it | cop |
| 3 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 it | advmod |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 turned | nsubj |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 turned | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 turned | nsubj |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 corner | det |
| 10 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seen | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 seen | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Rabbit | det |
| 14 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seen | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | aux:pass |
| 16 | no | no | ADV | _ | 17 longer | advmod |
| 17 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 seen | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 seen | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 seen | aux:pass |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 turned | conj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 found | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 found | nsubj |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 turned | conj |
| 24 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 found | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 hall | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 hall | det |
| 27 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 hall | amod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 long | punct |
| 29 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 hall | amod |
| 30 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 found | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 lit | punct |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 lit | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 lit | aux:pass |
| 34 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 hall | acl:relcl |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 lit | compound:prt |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 row | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 row | det |
| 38 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lit | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 lamps | case |
| 40 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 row | nmod |
| 41 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 lamps | acl |
| 42 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 roof | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 roof | det |
| 44 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 hanging | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Alice | wind | close property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | turn | past | wind | the corner | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme corner=Result | ||||
| 3 | see | past · passive | the Rabbit | long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | find | past | Alice | Alice | a long low hall | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic | |||
| 5 | lit up | past · passive | a row of lamps | a long low hall | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hang | gerund | lamps not said here | the roof | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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