Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 30
And the Eaglet bent down its head to hide a smile: some of the other birds tittered audibly.
Who acts: Eaglet, some · What happens: bend down, hide, titter · To what, where: head, smile
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eaglet, some), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 bent | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Eaglet | det |
| 3 | Eaglet | eaglet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bent | nsubj |
| 4 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 bent | compound:prt |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bent | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 hide | mark |
| 9 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bent | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 smile | det |
| 11 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hide | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 tittered | punct |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 tittered | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 birds | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 birds | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 birds | amod |
| 17 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 some | nmod |
| 18 | tittered | titter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bent | conj |
| 19 | audibly | audibly | ADV | _ | 18 tittered | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend down | past | the Eaglet | meaning's head | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material | ||||
| 2 | hide | to-infinitive | the Eaglet not said here | a smile | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smile=Patient | ||||
| 3 | titter | past | some | audibly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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