Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 101

_” thought Alice; but she had not long to doubt, for the next moment a shower of little pebbles came rattling in at the window, and some of them hit her in the face.

Who acts: shower, some · What happens: think, doubt, come, rattle, hit · To what, where: Alice, next moment, face

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 (shower, some), 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	_	3 thought	punct
2	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thought	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 long	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 long	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 long	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 long	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 long	advmod
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thought	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 doubt	mark
12	doubt	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 long	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 moment	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 moment	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 moment	det
16	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 moment	amod
17	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 doubt	obl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 shower	det
19	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 pebbles	case
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pebbles	amod
22	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 shower	nmod
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 moment	acl:relcl
24	rattling	rattle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 came	xcomp
25	in	in	ADV	_	24 rattling	advmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 window	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 window	det
28	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rattling	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 hit	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 hit	cc
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 hit	nsubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 some	nmod
34	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 hit	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 face	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 face	det
38	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hit	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	past		Alice				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot alice=Theme
2	doubt in a quote	to-infinitive				moment		vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	come in a quote	past	a shower of little pebbles	the next moment not said here				tree rules
4	rattle in a quote	gerund	a shower of little pebbles not said here				at the window	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at window=Stimulus
5	hit in a quote	past	some	Alice	the face			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme in face=Destination

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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