Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 89
On various pretexts they all moved off, and Alice was soon left alone.
Who acts: pretexts · What happens: move off, leave · To what, where: various pretexts, Alice
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 (pretexts), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 pretexts | case |
| 2 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pretexts | amod |
| 3 | pretexts | pretext | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 moved | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 moved | nsubj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 moved | advmod |
| 6 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 moved | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 left | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 left | cc |
| 10 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 left | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 left | aux:pass |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 left | advmod |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 moved | conj |
| 14 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 left | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move off | past | pretexts = pretext | various pretexts | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on pretext=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · passive | Alice | alone, soon property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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