Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 11

And Alice was so much frightened that she ran off at once in the direction it pointed to, without trying to explain the mistake it had made.

Who acts: Alice, direction, mistake · What happens: be, run off, point, try, explain, make · To what, where: direction, mistake

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, direction, mistake), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 frightened	cc
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 frightened	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 frightened	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 frightened	advmod
6	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 ran	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ran	nsubj
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 frightened	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 ran	compound:prt
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 ran	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 direction	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 direction	det
15	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ran	obl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pointed	nsubj
17	pointed	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 direction	acl:relcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	17 pointed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 trying	punct
20	without	without	SCONJ	_	21 trying	mark
21	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 frightened	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 explain	mark
23	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 trying	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mistake	det
25	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 explain	obj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 made	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 made	aux
28	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 mistake	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Alice			frighten property	tree rules
2	run off	past	Alice		the direction		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory
3	point	past	direction	the direction not said here			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Patient
4	try	gerund	Alice not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	explain speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	the mistake			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Topic
6	make	past · perfect · passive	the mistake not said here	direction			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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