Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 73
The Mouse gave a sudden leap out of the water, and seemed to quiver all over with fright.
Who acts: Mouse · What happens: give, seem, quiver · To what, where: sudden leap, water
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), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 leap | det |
| 5 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 leap | amod |
| 6 | leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seemed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seemed | cc |
| 13 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 quiver | mark |
| 15 | quiver | quiver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 seemed | xcomp |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 over | advmod |
| 17 | over | over | ADV | _ | 15 quiver | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 fright | case |
| 19 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 quiver | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Mouse | a sudden leap | the water | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leap=Theme | |||
| 2 | seem | past | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | quiver | to-infinitive | with fright; over property | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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