Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 23

Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking: “Dear, dear!

Who acts: Alice, hall · What happens: take up, be, keep, fan, go, talk · To what, where: fan, Alice, time

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, hall), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 took	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fan	det
5	fan	fan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gloves	cc
7	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fan	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 kept	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 kept	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 and	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 hot	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hall	det
13	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hot	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hot	cop
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 hot	advmod
16	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 kept	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hot	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 kept	nsubj
19	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
20	fanning	fan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 kept	xcomp
21	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 fanning	obj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 time	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fanning	obl:unmarked
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 went	nsubj
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 time	acl:relcl
27	on	on	SCONJ	_	28 talking	mark
28	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 went	advcl
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 Dear	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 Dear	punct
31	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 kept	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dear	punct
33	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Dear	conj
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take up	past	Alice	the fan and gloves			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fan=Theme
2	is	past	the hall			hot property	tree rules
3	keep	past	Alice				tree rules
4	fan	gerund	Alice not said here	Alice	time		tree rules
5	go	past	Alice	all time not said here			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme
6	talk	gerund	Alice not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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