Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 6
(when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually _took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket_, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
Who acts: Alice, Rabbit, it · What happens: think, occur, wonder, seem, take, look · To what, where: Rabbit, Alice, this, watch, waistcoat pocket, mind
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, Rabbit, it), 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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 thought | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 4 thought | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 occurred | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 occurred | nsubj |
| 10 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 occurred | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 wondered | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wondered | nsubj |
| 15 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 wondered | aux |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 wondered | mark |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wondered | aux |
| 18 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 occurred | ccomp |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 this | case |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 wondered | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 seemed | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 seemed | cc |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 time | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 time | det |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 seemed | obl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 seemed | nsubj |
| 27 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 seemed | advmod |
| 28 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 occurred | parataxis |
| 29 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 30 natural | advmod |
| 30 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 seemed | xcomp |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 natural | punct |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 took | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 took | cc |
| 34 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 took | advmod |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Rabbit | det |
| 36 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 took | nsubj |
| 37 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 39 took | advmod |
| 38 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 took | punct |
| 39 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 watch | det |
| 41 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 took | obj |
| 42 | out | out | ADP | _ | 47 pocket | case |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 pocket | case |
| 44 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 45 | waistcoat | waistcoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 pocket | compound |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 waistcoat | punct |
| 47 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 took | obl | ||
| 48 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 took | punct |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 looked | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 looked | cc |
| 51 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 took | parataxis |
| 52 | at | at | ADP | _ | 53 it | case |
| 53 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 looked | obl |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 hurried | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 hurried | cc |
| 56 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 57 hurried | advmod |
| 57 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 51 looked | conj |
| 58 | on | on | ADP | _ | 57 hurried | compound:prt |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 started | punct |
| 60 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 61 started | nsubj |
| 61 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 57 hurried | parataxis |
| 62 | to | to | ADP | _ | 64 feet | case |
| 63 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 64 feet | nmod:poss |
| 64 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 61 started | obl |
| 65 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 68 flashed | punct |
| 66 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 68 flashed | mark |
| 67 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 68 flashed | nsubj |
| 68 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 61 started | conj |
| 69 | across | across | ADP | _ | 71 mind | case |
| 70 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 71 mind | nmod:poss |
| 71 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 68 flashed | obl |
| 72 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 77 seen | mark |
| 73 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 77 seen | nsubj |
| 74 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 77 seen | aux |
| 75 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 76 before | advmod |
| 76 | before | before | ADV | _ | 77 seen | advmod |
| 77 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 68 flashed | advcl |
| 78 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 79 rabbit | det |
| 79 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 77 seen | obj |
| 80 | with | with | ADP | _ | 85 pocket | case |
| 81 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 85 pocket | cc:preconj |
| 82 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 85 pocket | det |
| 83 | waistcoat | waistcoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 85 pocket | compound |
| 84 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 83 waistcoat | punct |
| 85 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 77 seen | obl | ||
| 86 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 89 watch | punct |
| 87 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 89 watch | cc |
| 88 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 89 watch | det |
| 89 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 77 seen | obl |
| 90 | to | to | PART | _ | 91 take | mark |
| 91 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 89 watch | acl |
| 92 | out | out | ADP | _ | 94 it | case |
| 93 | of | of | ADP | _ | 94 it | case |
| 94 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 91 take | obl |
| 95 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 97 burning | punct |
| 96 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 97 burning | cc |
| 97 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 took | advcl |
| 98 | with | with | ADP | _ | 99 curiosity | case |
| 99 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 97 burning | obl |
| 100 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 102 ran | punct |
| 101 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 102 ran | nsubj |
| 102 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 took | conj |
| 103 | across | across | ADP | _ | 105 field | case |
| 104 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 105 field | det |
| 105 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 102 ran | obl |
| 106 | after | after | ADP | _ | 107 it | case |
| 107 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 102 ran | obl |
| 108 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 114 time | punct |
| 109 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 114 time | cc |
| 110 | fortunately | fortunately | ADV | _ | 114 time | advmod |
| 111 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 114 time | cop |
| 112 | just | just | ADV | _ | 114 time | advmod |
| 113 | in | in | ADP | _ | 114 time | case |
| 114 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 took | obl |
| 115 | to | to | PART | _ | 116 see | mark |
| 116 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 114 time | acl |
| 117 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 116 see | obj |
| 118 | pop | pop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 116 see | xcomp |
| 119 | down | down | ADP | _ | 118 pop | compound:prt |
| 120 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 124 hole | det |
| 121 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 124 hole | amod |
| 122 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 124 hole | compound |
| 123 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 122 rabbit | punct |
| 124 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 118 pop | obj |
| 125 | under | under | ADP | _ | 127 hedge | case |
| 126 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 127 hedge | det |
| 127 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 124 hole | nmod |
| 128 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Alice | Rabbit | afterwards property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||
| 2 | occur | past | Rabbit | Alice | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | ought · perfect | Alice | this | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | seem | past | it | time | all, natural property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | take | past | the Rabbit | a watch | Rabbit's waistcoat pocket | actually property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location | ||
| 6 | look | past | at Rabbit | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | |||||
| 7 | hurry on | participle | then | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | start | past | Alice | to Alice's feet | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 9 | flash | past | Rabbit | Alice's mind | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 10 | see | past · perfect | Alice | a rabbit | with a waistcoat pocket; a watch obl; before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rabbit=Stimulus | |||
| 11 | take out | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | Rabbit | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 12 | burn | gerund | the Rabbit not said here | with curiosity | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with curiosity=Theme | ||||
| 13 | run | past | Alice | the field | after Rabbit | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across field=Trajectory | |||
| 14 | is | past | in time | fortunately property | tree rules | ||||
| 15 | see | to-infinitive | the Rabbit not said here | Rabbit | tree rules | ||||
| 16 | pop down | infinitive | Rabbit not said here | a large rabbit hole | the hedge | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient | |||
| 17 | mind | Alice | nom mind «cognition 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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