Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 113

“Poor little thing!” said Alice, in a coaxing tone, and she tried hard to whistle to it; but she was terribly frightened all the time at the thought that it might be hungry, in which case it would be very likely to eat her up in spite of all her coaxing.

Who acts: Alice, thing, puppy, it · What happens: say, coax, try, whistle, frighten, be · To what, where: tone, thing, thought, case, spite, coaxing · Speech: someone speaks here

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, thing, puppy, it), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 thing	punct
2	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 thing	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 thing	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tone	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 tone	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tone	det
12	coaxing	coax	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 tone	amod
13	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Alice	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tried	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 tried	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tried	nsubj
17	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
18	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tried	xcomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 whistle	mark
20	whistle	whistle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 hard	xcomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 whistle	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 frightened	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 frightened	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 frightened	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 frightened	aux:pass
27	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	28 frightened	advmod
28	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	parataxis
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 time	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 time	det
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 frightened	obl:unmarked
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 thought	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 thought	det
34	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 frightened	obl
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 hungry	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 hungry	nsubj
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 hungry	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 hungry	cop
39	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 thought	ccomp
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 likely	punct
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 case	case
42	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	43 case	det
43	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 likely	obl
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 likely	nsubj
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 likely	aux
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 likely	cop
47	very	very	ADV	_	48 likely	advmod
48	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 frightened	conj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 eat	mark
50	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 likely	xcomp
51	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 eat	obj
52	up	up	ADP	_	50 eat	compound:prt
53	in	in	ADP	_	54 spite	case
54	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 eat	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	58 coaxing	case
56	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	58 coaxing	det:predet
57	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 coaxing	nmod:poss
58	coaxing	coaxing	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 spite	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Alice						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	coax	gerund							vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	try	past	thing					hard property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	whistle	to-infinitive	thing not said here		tone				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient
5	frighten	past · passive		thing		the thought	time	terribly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
6	is	might	puppy					hungry property	tree rules
7	is	would	it			which case		likely property	tree rules
8	eat up	to-infinitive		thing		spite of thing's coaxing			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
9	spite			thing's coaxing					nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
10	coax		thing						nom coaxing «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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