Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 19
After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: hear, dry, see, come · To what, where: little pattering, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pattering | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pattering | amod |
| 8 | pattering | pattering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 feet | case |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pattering | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 distance | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 distance | det |
| 13 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dried | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dried | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dried | nsubj |
| 17 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 18 dried | advmod |
| 18 | dried | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dried | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 dried | advcl |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 coming | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 coming | aux |
| 25 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 see | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Alice | a little pattering of feet | time | in the distance | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer pattering=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | dry | past | Alice | Alice's eyes | hastily property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient eye=Result | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | come | past · progressive | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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