Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 107
The poor little Lizard, Bill, was in the middle, being held up by two guinea-pigs, who were giving it something out of a bottle.
Who acts: poor little Lizard, two guinea pigs · What happens: be, hold up, give · To what, where: middle, bottle
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 (poor little Lizard, two guinea pigs), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Lizard | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Lizard | amod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Lizard | amod |
| 4 | Lizard | Lizard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 middle | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bill | punct |
| 6 | Bill | Bill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Lizard | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Lizard | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 middle | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 middle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 middle | det |
| 11 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 held | punct |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 held | aux:pass |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 middle | acl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 held | compound:prt |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 pigs | case |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 pigs | nummod |
| 18 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pigs | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 guinea | punct |
| 20 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 held | obl:agent |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 giving | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 giving | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 giving | aux |
| 24 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 pigs | acl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 giving | obj |
| 26 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 giving | obj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 bottle | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 bottle | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 bottle | det |
| 30 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 giving | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 middle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the poor little Lizard and Bill | the middle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold up | gerund · passive | two guinea pigs | the middle not said here | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | give | past · progressive | two guinea pigs | middle | a bottle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient something=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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