Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 69
The Mouse looked at her rather inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with one of its little eyes, but it said nothing.
Who acts: Mouse, way · What happens: look, seem, wink, say · To what, where: mouse, nothing · 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 (Mouse, way), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Mouse | det |
| 2 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 inquisitively | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 inquisitively | nmod:poss |
| 6 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 7 inquisitively | advmod |
| 7 | inquisitively | inquisitively | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 looked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seemed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 seemed | cc |
| 10 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seemed | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 wink | mark |
| 14 | wink | wink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 seemed | xcomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 wink | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 eyes | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 eyes | amod |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | nsubj |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 25 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 24 said | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the Mouse | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at inquisitively=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seem | past | mouse | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | wink | to-infinitive | with one of way's little eyes | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | way | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
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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