Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 75
So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: set, work, finish off · To what, where: cake
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 work | mark |
| 5 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 set | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 finished | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 finished | cc |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 soon | advmod |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 finished | advmod |
| 10 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 set | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 cake | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cake | det |
| 13 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 finished | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | Alice | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | finish off | participle | Alice not said here | the cake | soon property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality cake=Eventuality |
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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