Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 49

As she said this she looked down at her hands, and was surprised to see that she had put on one of the Rabbit’s little white kid gloves while she was talking.

Who acts: Alice, this · What happens: say, look down, be, see, put, talk · 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, this), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 said	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 looked	nsubj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looked	nsubj
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 looked	compound:prt
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 hands	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hands	nmod:poss
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 looked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 surprised	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 surprised	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 surprised	cop
14	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ’s	csubj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 surprised	advcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 put	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 put	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 put	aux
20	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 see	xcomp
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 one	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 put	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 Rabbit	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Rabbit	det
25	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 one	nmod
26	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 gloves	amod
28	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 gloves	amod
29	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gloves	compound
30	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 ’s	obj
31	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 talking	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 talking	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 talking	aux
34	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 ’s	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Alice		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look down	past	this	at Alice's hands	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hand=Theme
3	is	past		surprised property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	put	past · perfect	Alice	on one of the Rabbit	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on one=Destination
6	talk	past · progressive	Alice		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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