Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 112
An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes, and feebly stretching out one paw, trying to touch her.
Who acts: enormous puppy · What happens: look down, stretch out, try, touch · To what, where: one paw, thing
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 (enormous puppy), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 puppy | det |
| 2 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 puppy | amod |
| 3 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looking | aux |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 looking | compound:prt |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looking | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 eyes | case |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyes | amod |
| 11 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyes | amod |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looking | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stretching | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stretching | cc |
| 15 | feebly | feebly | ADV | _ | 16 stretching | advmod |
| 16 | stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 looking | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 stretching | compound:prt |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 paw | nummod |
| 19 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stretching | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 trying | punct |
| 21 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 stretching | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 touch | mark |
| 23 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 trying | xcomp |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 touch | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look down | past · progressive | a enormous puppy | at thing; with large round eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stretch out | gerund | a enormous puppy not said here | one paw | feebly property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent paw=Patient | |||
| 3 | try | gerund | a enormous puppy not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | touch not said to happen | to-infinitive | a enormous puppy not said here | thing | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-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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