Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 123

There was a large mushroom growing near her, about the same height as herself; and when she had looked under it, and on both sides of it, and behind it, it occurred to her that she might as well look and see what was on the top of it.

Who acts: large mushroom, mushroom, side · What happens: be, grow, look, occur, see · To what, where: sides, mushroom, side, top · 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 (large mushroom, mushroom, side), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mushroom	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mushroom	amod
5	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 mushroom	acl
7	near	near	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 growing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 height	punct
10	about	about	ADP	_	13 height	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 height	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 height	amod
13	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 growing	obl
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 herself	case
15	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 height	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 looked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 looked	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 looked	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 looked	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 looked	aux
21	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 was	parataxis
22	under	under	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 looked	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sides	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sides	cc
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 sides	case
27	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	28 sides	det
28	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 was	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sides	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 occurred	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 occurred	cc
33	behind	behind	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 occurred	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 it	punct
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 occurred	nsubj
37	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 her	case
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 occurred	obl
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 look	mark
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 look	nsubj
42	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 look	aux
43	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	45 look	cc
44	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 as	fixed
45	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 occurred	advcl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 see	cc
47	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 look	conj
48	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	52 top	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 top	cop
50	on	on	ADP	_	52 top	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 top	det
52	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 see	ccomp
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 it	case
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 top	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a large mushroom		both sides of side; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location
2	grow	gerund	a large mushroom not said here			near mushroom; about the same height as mushroom	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near she=Location
3	look	past · perfect	mushroom			under height	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under it=Theme
4	occur	past	side	mushroom	side		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind it=Location
5	look	might	mushroom				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	see	infinitive	mushroom not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	past			the top	of side	tree rules

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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