Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 8
The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well.
Who acts: rabbit hole, Alice · What happens: go, dip, have, think, stop, find · To what, where: Alice
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 (rabbit hole, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hole | det |
| 2 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hole | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 rabbit | punct |
| 4 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 7 on | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 tunnel | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tunnel | det |
| 10 | tunnel | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 way | case |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tunnel | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dipped | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dipped | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 dipped | advmod |
| 17 | dipped | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 18 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 19 down | advmod |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 dipped | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 suddenly | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 suddenly | advmod |
| 22 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 17 dipped | advmod |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 had | mark |
| 24 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 dipped | advcl |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 moment | advmod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 moment | det |
| 28 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 think | mark |
| 30 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 moment | acl |
| 31 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 32 stopping | mark |
| 32 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 think | advcl |
| 33 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 stopping | obj |
| 34 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 36 found | mark |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 found | nsubj |
| 36 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 stopping | advcl |
| 37 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 found | obj |
| 38 | falling | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 found | xcomp |
| 39 | down | down | ADP | _ | 42 deep | mark |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 deep | det |
| 41 | very | very | ADV | _ | 42 deep | advmod |
| 42 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 falling | advcl |
| 43 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 42 deep | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the rabbit hole | like a tunnel for some way | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dip | past | the rabbit hole not said here | then | down, suddenly property | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | past | Alice | moment | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | stop | gerund | Alice not said here | Alice | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality herself=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | find | past | Alice | Alice | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | fall down | gerund | Alice not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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