Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 13
Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall: in fact she was now more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door.
Who acts: head · What happens: strike, be, take up, hurry off · To what, where: roof, fact, little golden key, garden door
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 then | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 struck | advmod |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 struck | nsubj |
| 5 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 roof | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 roof | det |
| 8 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 struck | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 hall | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hall | det |
| 11 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roof | nmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 high | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 fact | case |
| 14 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 high | obl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 high | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 high | cop |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 high | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 20 nine | advmod |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 more | fixed |
| 20 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 feet | nummod |
| 21 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 high | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 struck | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 took | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 took | cc |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 took | nsubj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 once | case |
| 27 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 28 took | obl |
| 28 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 struck | parataxis |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 took | compound:prt |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 key | det |
| 31 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 key | amod |
| 32 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 key | amod |
| 33 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 took | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 hurried | cc |
| 35 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 took | conj |
| 36 | off | off | ADP | _ | 35 hurried | compound:prt |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 door | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 door | det |
| 39 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 door | compound |
| 40 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hurried | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | Alice's head | the roof of the hall | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against roof=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | head | fact | now | nine feet obl:unmarked; high property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | take up | past | head | the little golden key | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent key=Theme at once=Asset | ||||
| 4 | hurry off | past | head not said here | the garden door | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to door=Destination |
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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