Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 55
As she said these words her foot slipped, and in another moment, splash! she was up to her chin in salt water.
Who acts: door, foot · What happens: say, slip, be · To what, where: words, salt water · 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 (door, foot), 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 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | obj |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 foot | nmod:poss |
| 7 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slipped | nsubj |
| 8 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 words | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 chin | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 chin | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 moment | case |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 moment | det |
| 13 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 chin | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 splash | punct |
| 15 | splash | splash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 moment | conj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 moment | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 chin | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 chin | cop |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 was | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 chin | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 chin | nmod:poss |
| 22 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 water | case |
| 24 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 water | compound |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 chin | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | door | this words | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 2 | slip | past | door's foot | this words not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | door | salt water | moment | to door's chin | tree rules |
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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