Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 115

This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape; so she set off at once, and ran till she was quite tired and out of breath, and till the puppy’s bark sounded quite faint in the distance.

Who acts: This, good opportunity, Alice, bark · What happens: seem, make, set off, run, be, sound · To what, where: Alice, escape

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 (This, good opportunity, Alice, bark), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Alice	case
4	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 opportunity	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 opportunity	amod
7	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Alice	appos
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 making	mark
9	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 opportunity	acl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 escape	nmod:poss
11	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 making	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 set	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 set	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 set	nsubj
15	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	conj
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 set	compound:prt
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 once	case
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 set	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ran	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ran	cc
21	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	conj
22	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 tired	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tired	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 tired	cop
25	quite	quite	ADV	_	26 tired	advmod
26	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ran	ccomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 breath	cc
28	out	out	ADP	_	30 breath	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 breath	case
30	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tired	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 sounded	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 sounded	cc
33	till	till	ADP	_	37 bark	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 puppy	det
35	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bark	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 puppy	case
37	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sounded	nsubj
38	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
39	quite	quite	ADV	_	40 faint	advmod
40	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 sounded	xcomp
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 distance	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 distance	det
43	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 faint	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	This		Alice		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	make	gerund	a good opportunity not said here	Alice's escape			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset escape=Product
3	set off	past	Alice				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	run	past	This not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	Alice			tired property	tree rules
6	sound	past	the puppy's bark			faint property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	escape		Alice				nom escape «act intransitive»: 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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