Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 48
And so she went on, taking first one side and then the other, and making quite a conversation of it altogether; but after a few minutes she heard a voice outside, and stopped to listen.
Who acts: book, conversation · What happens: go on, take, make, hear, stop, listen · To what, where: one side, conversation, voice
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 (book, conversation), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 taking | punct |
| 7 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 one | advmod |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 side | nummod |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taking | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 other | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 other | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 other | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 taking | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 making | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 making | cc |
| 17 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 taking | conj |
| 18 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 conversation | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 conversation | det |
| 20 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 making | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 conversation | nmod |
| 23 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 17 making | advmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 heard | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 heard | cc |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 29 minutes | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 minutes | det |
| 28 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 minutes | amod |
| 29 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 heard | obl |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 heard | nsubj |
| 31 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 voice | det |
| 33 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 heard | obj |
| 34 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 31 heard | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 stopped | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 stopped | cc |
| 37 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 heard | conj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 listen | mark |
| 39 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 stopped | xcomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | book | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | gerund | book not said here | one side | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | book not said here | quite conversation of conversation | altogether property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset conversation=Product | |||
| 4 | hear | past | book | a voice | minute | outside property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||
| 5 | stop | past | book not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | listen | to-infinitive | book not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | converse | conversation | nom conversation «communication intransitive»: of=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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