Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 57

And she kept on puzzling about it while the Mouse was speaking, so that her idea of the tale was something like this:—

Who acts: Alice, Mouse, idea · What happens: keep, puzzle, speak, be · 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, Mouse, idea), 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	_	3 kept	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	5 puzzling	mark
5	puzzling	puzzle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 puzzling	obl
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 speaking	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Mouse	det
10	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 speaking	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 speaking	aux
12	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 puzzling	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 speaking	punct
14	so	so	SCONJ	_	22 something	case
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 so	fixed
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 idea	nmod:poss
17	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 something	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 tale	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tale	det
20	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 idea	nmod
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 something	cop
22	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 speaking	obl
23	like	like	ADP	_	24 this	case
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 something	nmod
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct
26	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Alice		tree rules
2	puzzle	gerund	Alice not said here	about tale	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	speak speech: other	past · progressive	the Mouse		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Alice's idea of the tale	so something; like this	tree rules

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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