Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 108
They all made a rush at Alice the moment she appeared; but she ran off as hard as she could, and soon found herself safe in a thick wood.
Who acts: Lizard, Alice · What happens: make, appear, run off, find · To what, where: rush, Alice, moment
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 (Lizard, Alice), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 made | advmod |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rush | det |
| 5 | rush | rush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Alice | case |
| 7 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 moment | det |
| 9 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Alice | appos |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 appeared | nsubj |
| 11 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 moment | acl:relcl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 ran | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 ran | cc |
| 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 | 3 made | conj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 ran | compound:prt |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 hard | advmod |
| 18 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 ran | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 could | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 could | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 hard | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 found | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 found | cc |
| 24 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 found | advmod |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 26 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 found | obj |
| 27 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 found | xcomp |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 wood | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 wood | det |
| 30 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 wood | amod |
| 31 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 safe | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Lizard | a rush | Alice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rush=Product | |||
| 2 | appear | past | Alice | the moment not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location moment=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run off | past | Alice | hard property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | Alice | safe, soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic |
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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