Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 111

It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very neatly and simply arranged; the only difficulty was, that she had not the smallest idea how to set about it; and while she was peering about anxiously among the trees, a little sharp bark just over her head made her look up in a great hurry.

Who acts: plan, thing, only difficulty · What happens: sound, arrange, have, set, peer, be · To what, where: excellent plan, smallest idea, 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 (plan, thing, only difficulty), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sounded	nsubj
2	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 plan	det
4	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plan	amod
5	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sounded	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 doubt	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 doubt	det
8	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plan	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 neatly	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 neatly	cc
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 neatly	advmod
12	neatly	neatly	ADV	_	2 sounded	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 arranged	cc
14	simply	simply	ADV	_	15 arranged	advmod
15	arranged	arrange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 neatly	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 difficulty	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 difficulty	det
18	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 difficulty	amod
19	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sounded	obl
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 made	cop
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 made	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 had	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 made	advcl
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 idea	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 idea	det
27	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 idea	amod
28	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
29	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 set	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 set	mark
31	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 idea	acl
32	about	about	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 set	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 made	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 made	cc
36	while	while	SCONJ	_	39 peering	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 peering	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 peering	aux
39	peering	peer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	54 made	advcl
40	about	about	ADV	_	41 anxiously	advmod
41	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	_	39 peering	advmod
42	among	among	ADP	_	44 trees	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 trees	det
44	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 peering	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 bark	punct
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 bark	det
47	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 bark	amod
48	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 bark	amod
49	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 trees	conj
50	just	just	ADV	_	53 head	advmod
51	over	over	ADP	_	53 head	case
52	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 head	nmod:poss
53	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 peering	obl
54	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 difficulty	acl:relcl
55	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 made	obj
56	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 made	xcomp
57	up	up	ADP	_	56 look	compound:prt
58	in	in	ADP	_	61 hurry	case
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 hurry	det
60	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 hurry	amod
61	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 look	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sound	past	plan	a excellent plan		the only difficulty obl; neatly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plan=Theme
2	arrange	participle	plan not said here			simply property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	thing	the smallest idea			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
4	set	to-infinitive	thing not said here	the smallest idea not said here		about plan	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about it=Destination
5	peer	past · progressive	thing		thing's head	among the trees and a little sharp bark; anxiously property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent among tree=Theme
6	is	past	the only difficulty not said here			make property	tree rules
7	look up	infinitive	the only difficulty not said here			in a great hurry	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in hurry=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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