Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 42
“How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spread his claws, And welcome little fishes in With gently smiling jaws!”
Who acts: crocodile · What happens: seem, grin, spread, smile · To what, where: claws
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 (crocodile), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 seems | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 cheerfully | advmod |
| 3 | cheerfully | cheerfully | ADV | _ | 5 seems | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seems | nsubj |
| 5 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 grin | mark |
| 7 | grin | grin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seems | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spread | punct |
| 9 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 spread | advmod |
| 10 | neatly | neatly | ADV | _ | 11 spread | advmod |
| 11 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grin | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 claws | nmod:poss |
| 13 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 spread | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fishes | punct |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fishes | cc |
| 16 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fishes | amod |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fishes | amod |
| 18 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 seems | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 jaws | case |
| 20 | With | with | ADP | _ | 23 jaws | case |
| 21 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 22 smiling | advmod |
| 22 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 jaws | amod |
| 23 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fishes | nmod |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 fishes | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem in a quote | present | crocodile | cheerfully property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | grin in a quote | to-infinitive | crocodile not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | spread in a quote | past | crocodile not said here | crocodile's claws | neatly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location claw=Theme | |||
| 4 | smile in a quote | gerund | gently property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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