Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 95
In a little while, however, she again heard a little pattering of footsteps in the distance, and she looked up eagerly, half hoping that the Mouse had changed his mind, and was coming back to finish his story.
Who acts: Alice, half, Mouse · What happens: hear, look up, hope, change, come back, finish · To what, where: little pattering, mind, story
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, half, Mouse), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 while | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 while | amod |
| 4 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 while | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 10 heard | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 heard | advmod |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pattering | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pattering | amod |
| 13 | pattering | pattering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 footsteps | case |
| 15 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pattering | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 distance | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 distance | det |
| 18 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 footsteps | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 looked | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 looked | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 looked | nsubj |
| 22 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 looked | compound:prt |
| 24 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 22 looked | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 half | punct |
| 26 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 22 looked | parataxis |
| 27 | hoping | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 half | acl |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 changed | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Mouse | det |
| 30 | Mouse | Mouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 changed | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 changed | aux |
| 32 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 hoping | advcl |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 mind | nmod:poss |
| 34 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 changed | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 coming | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 coming | cc |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 coming | aux |
| 38 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 heard | conj |
| 39 | back | back | ADV | _ | 38 coming | advmod |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 finish | mark |
| 41 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 coming | advcl |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 story | nmod:poss |
| 43 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 finish | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Alice | a little pattering of footsteps in the distance | again; while | however property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer pattering=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | look up | past | Alice | eagerly property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hope | gerund | half not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | change | past · perfect | the Mouse | Mouse's mind | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 5 | come back | past · progressive | Alice not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | finish | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | Mouse's story | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality story=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | mind | Mouse | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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