Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 16
She went in without knocking, and hurried upstairs, in great fear lest she should meet the real Mary Ann, and be turned out of the house before she had found the fan and gloves.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: go in, knock, hurry, meet, turn out, find · To what, where: real Mary, house, fan
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 5 knocking | mark |
| 5 | knocking | knock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 went | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hurried | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hurried | cc |
| 8 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 9 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 8 hurried | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fear | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 fear | case |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fear | amod |
| 13 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hurried | conj |
| 14 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 17 meet | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 meet | nsubj |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 meet | aux |
| 17 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fear | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Mary | det |
| 19 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Mary | amod |
| 20 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 meet | obj |
| 21 | Ann | Ann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Mary | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 turned | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 turned | cc |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 turned | aux:pass |
| 25 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 went | parataxis |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 house | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 house | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 house | det |
| 29 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 turned | obl |
| 30 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 33 found | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 found | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 found | aux |
| 33 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 turned | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 fan | det |
| 35 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 found | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 gloves | cc |
| 37 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 fan | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | Alice | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | knock | gerund | Alice not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | hurry | past | upstairs property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | meet | should | Alice | the real Mary | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mary=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | turn out | infinitive · passive | the house | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: house=Theme | |||||
| 6 | find | past · perfect | Alice | the fan and gloves | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fan=Topic |
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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