Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 66

“A knot!” said Alice, always ready to make herself useful, and looking anxiously about her.

Who acts: knot · What happens: say, make, look · To what, where: Alice · 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 (knot), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 knot	det
3	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 knot	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 knot	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ready	punct
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 ready	advmod
10	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 make	mark
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 ready	xcomp
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 make	obj
14	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 make	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looking	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 looking	cc
17	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
18	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	_	17 looking	advmod
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 looking	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a knot			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	make	to-infinitive	a knot not said here	Alice	useful property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset herself=Product
3	look	gerund	a knot not said here		about Alice; anxiously property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about she=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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