Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 7
Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: keep, fix, feel, catch, not get · To what, where: eyes, middle, bad cold
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), 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 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kept | obj |
| 5 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 6 fixed | advmod |
| 6 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 kept | advcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fixed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 felt | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 felt | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 felt | nsubj |
| 12 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kept | conj |
| 13 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 felt | xcomp |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 catch | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 catch | aux |
| 16 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sure | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cold | det |
| 18 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cold | amod |
| 19 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 catch | obj |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 get | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 get | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 get | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 get | advmod |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 catch | advcl |
| 25 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 get | xcomp |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 soon | advmod |
| 27 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 get | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Alice | Alice's eyes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fix | participle | Alice not said here | middle | anxiously property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | feel | past | Alice | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | catch | would | Alice | a bad cold | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not get a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | Alice | dry, soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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