Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 106

As soon as she was small enough to get through the door, she ran out of the house, and found quite a crowd of little animals and birds waiting outside.

Who acts: idea, birds · What happens: be, get, run, find, wait · To what, where: door, house, crowd

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 (idea, birds), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 small	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 small	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 small	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 small	cop
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ran	advcl
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 small	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 small	advcl
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 door	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 small	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ran	nsubj
15	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 house	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 house	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 house	det
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ran	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 found	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 found	cc
22	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ran	conj
23	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	25 crowd	det:predet
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 crowd	det
25	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 found	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 animals	case
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 animals	amod
28	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 crowd	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 birds	cc
30	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 animals	conj
31	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 birds	acl
32	outside	outside	ADV	_	31 waiting	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	idea			enough, small, soon property	tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive	idea not said here		the door		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through door=Destination
3	run	past	idea		the house		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out house=Trajectory
4	find	past	idea not said here	quite crowd of little animals and birds			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crowd=Topic
5	wait	gerund	birds not said here			outside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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