Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 97
Alice led the way, and the whole party swam to the shore.
Who acts: Alice, whole party · What happens: lead, swim · To what, where: way, shore
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, whole party), 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 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 led | nsubj |
| 2 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 led | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 swam | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 swam | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 party | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 party | amod |
| 9 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swam | nsubj |
| 10 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 led | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 shore | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shore | det |
| 13 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swam | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | Alice | the way | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swim | past | the whole party | the shore | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination |
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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