Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 20

It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other: he came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came, “Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess!

Who acts: eye, Rabbit · What happens: return, dress, come, trot, mutter · To what, where: one hand, great hurry, Rabbit, Duchess

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 (eye, Rabbit), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 returning	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 returning	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Rabbit	det
4	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Rabbit	amod
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 returning	nsubj
6	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dressed	punct
8	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	_	9 dressed	advmod
9	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 returning	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pair	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 pair	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pair	det
13	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dressed	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 gloves	case
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gloves	amod
16	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gloves	compound
17	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pair	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 hand	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 hand	nummod
20	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dressed	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fan	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 fan	det
23	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fan	amod
24	fan	fan	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hand	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 other	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 other	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fan	nmod
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 came	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 came	nsubj
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 returning	conj
31	trotting	trot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 came	xcomp
32	along	along	ADV	_	31 trotting	advmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 hurry	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 hurry	det
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 hurry	amod
36	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 trotting	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 muttering	punct
38	muttering	mutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 came	advcl
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 himself	case
40	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 muttering	obl
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 came	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 came	nsubj
43	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 muttering	advcl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 Duchess	punct
45	“	"	PUNCT	_	49 Duchess	punct
46	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	49 Duchess	discourse
47	!	!	PUNCT	_	46 Oh	punct
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Duchess	det
49	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 came	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 Duchess	punct
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 Duchess	det
52	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Duchess	conj
53	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 returning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	past · progressive	eye					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dress	participle				one hand and a large fan in the other	with a pair of white kid gloves; splendidly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	Rabbit					tree rules
4	trot	gerund	Rabbit not said here			a great hurry	along property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hurry=Trajectory
5	mutter speech: assert	gerund	Rabbit not said here		Rabbit			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
6	come	past	Rabbit	the Duchess and the Duchess				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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