Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 73

She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, “Which way?

Who acts: Alice · What happens: eat, say · To what, where: little bit, way, Alice · 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), 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	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bit	amod
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
9	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	_	11 herself	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 herself	case
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 way	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 way	punct
14	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Alice	a little bit					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Alice not said here	which way	Alice				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient

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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