Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 122

Alice looked all round her at the flowers and the blades of grass, but she did not see anything that looked like the right thing to eat or drink under the circumstances.

Who acts: Alice · What happens: look, not see, eat, drink · To what, where: flowers, anything, circumstances

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), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 her	advmod
4	round	round	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 flowers	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flowers	det
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looked	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 blades	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 blades	det
11	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 flowers	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 grass	case
13	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blades	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 see	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 see	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 see	advmod
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 looked	conj
20	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 see	obj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 looked	nsubj
22	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 anything	acl:relcl
23	like	like	ADP	_	26 thing	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 thing	det
25	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 thing	amod
26	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 looked	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 eat	mark
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 thing	acl
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 drink	cc
30	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 eat	conj
31	under	under	ADP	_	33 circumstances	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 circumstances	det
33	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 drink	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	Alice		the flowers and the blades of grass	round last	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round she=Theme
2	not see	past · do-support	Alice	anything			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
3	look	past				like the right thing	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	eat	to-infinitive					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	drink	infinitive			the circumstances		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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