Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 51

Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked so grave that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not think of anything to say, she simply bowed, and took the thimble, looking as solemn as she could.

Who acts: Alice, prizes · What happens: think, look, not dare, not laugh, not think, say · To what, where: whole thing, thimble · Speech: someone speaks here

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, prizes), 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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	obj
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 absurd	advmod
7	absurd	absurd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 looked	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	nsubj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 looked	advmod
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 grave	advmod
14	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 looked	xcomp
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 dare	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dare	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dare	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 dare	advmod
19	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 grave	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 laugh	mark
21	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 dare	xcomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 bowed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 bowed	cc
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 and	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 think	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 think	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 think	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 think	advmod
29	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 bowed	advcl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 anything	case
31	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 think	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 say	mark
33	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 anything	acl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 think	punct
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 bowed	nsubj
36	simply	simply	ADV	_	37 bowed	advmod
37	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 took	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 took	cc
40	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 thimble	det
42	thimble	thimble	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 took	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 looking	punct
44	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 took	advcl
45	as	as	ADV	_	46 solemn	advmod
46	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 looking	xcomp
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	49 could	mark
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 could	nsubj
49	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 solemn	advcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Alice	the whole thing		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme
2	look	past	prizes = prize		grave property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	not dare	past · do-support	Alice			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not laugh	to-infinitive	Alice not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not think speech: other	could	Alice		of anything	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Alice not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	bow	past	Alice		simply property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	take	past	Alice not said here	the thimble		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thimble=Theme
9	look	gerund	Alice not said here		solemn property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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