Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 103

Alice noticed with some surprise that the pebbles were all turning into little cakes as they lay on the floor, and a bright idea came into her head.

Who acts: Alice, pebbles, bright idea · What happens: notice, turn, lay, come · To what, where: little cakes, floor, head

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 (Alice, pebbles, bright idea), 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 noticed	nsubj
2	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 surprise	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 surprise	det
5	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 noticed	obl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 turning	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pebbles	det
8	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 turning	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 turning	aux
10	all	all	ADV	_	11 turning	advmod
11	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 noticed	advcl
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 cakes	case
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cakes	amod
14	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 turning	obl
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 lay	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lay	nsubj
17	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 turning	advcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 floor	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 floor	det
20	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 came	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 idea	det
24	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 idea	amod
25	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 noticed	conj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 head	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	notice	past	Alice		with some surprise	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	turn	past · progressive	the pebbles	little cakes	all property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into cake=Trajectory
3	lay	present	pebbles = pebble	the floor		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on floor=Destination
4	come	past	a bright idea	Alice's head		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into head=Initial_Location

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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