Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 43
Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand in her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits, (luckily the salt water had not got into it), and handed them round as prizes.
Who acts: Alice, salt water · What happens: have, do, put, pull out, not get, hand · To what, where: idea, hand, despair, box, comfits
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 (Alice, salt water), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 idea | det |
| 4 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 do | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 idea | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 put | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 despair | case |
| 11 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 put | nsubj |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 pocket | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 18 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl | ||
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pulled | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pulled | cc |
| 21 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | parataxis |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 pulled | compound:prt |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 box | det |
| 24 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pulled | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 comfits | case |
| 26 | comfits | comfit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 box | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 got | punct |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 got | punct |
| 29 | luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 35 got | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 water | det |
| 31 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 water | compound |
| 32 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 got | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 got | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 got | advmod |
| 35 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 pulled | parataxis |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 it | case |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 got | obl |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 got | punct |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 handed | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 handed | cc |
| 41 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 handed | obj |
| 43 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 prizes | case |
| 44 | as | as | ADP | _ | 43 round | fixed |
| 45 | prizes | prize | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 handed | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Alice | no idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | no idea | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | put | past | Alice | Alice's hand | despair | in Alice's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in despair=Destination | ||
| 4 | pull out | participle | a box of comfits | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not get | past · perfect | the salt water | box | luckily property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination | |||
| 6 | hand | past | Alice not said here | comfits = comfit | round prizes | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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