Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 1
It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and looking anxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something; and she heard it muttering to itself “The Duchess!
Who acts: It, White Rabbit, Rabbit, she · What happens: be, trot, look, go, lose, hear · To what, where: White Rabbit, Rabbit, Duchess
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, White Rabbit, Rabbit, she), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Rabbit | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Rabbit | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Rabbit | det |
| 4 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Rabbit | amod |
| 5 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 trotting | punct |
| 7 | trotting | trot | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 Rabbit | acl |
| 8 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 9 back | advmod |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 trotting | advmod |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 trotting | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looking | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 looking | cc |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 trotting | conj |
| 14 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 13 looking | advmod |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 went | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 looking | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lost | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 lost | mark |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 lost | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 lost | aux |
| 24 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 went | parataxis |
| 25 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 lost | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 heard | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 heard | cc |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 heard | nsubj |
| 29 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Rabbit | acl:relcl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 heard | obj |
| 31 | muttering | mutter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 heard | xcomp |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 itself | case |
| 33 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 muttering | obl |
| 34 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 Duchess | punct |
| 35 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Duchess | det |
| 36 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 muttering | obl |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Rabbit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | the White Rabbit | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trot | gerund | the White Rabbit not said here | again | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | the White Rabbit not said here | anxiously property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | go | past | Rabbit | about property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lose a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | Rabbit | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | hear | past | she | Rabbit | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | mutter speech: assert | gerund | Rabbit not said here | the Duchess | Rabbit | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to itself=Recipient |
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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