Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 53
Alice knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for her, and she trembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting that she was now about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit, and had no reason to be afraid of it.
Who acts: Alice, pattering, Rabbit · What happens: know, be, come, look, tremble, shake · To what, where: Rabbit, house, thousand times, reason · 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 (Alice, pattering, Rabbit), 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 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Rabbit | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Rabbit | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Rabbit | det |
| 6 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 Rabbit | acl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 look | mark |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 coming | advcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 look | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 trembled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 trembled | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 trembled | nsubj |
| 15 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | conj |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 shook | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 shook | nsubj |
| 18 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 trembled | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shook | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 forgetting | punct |
| 22 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 23 forgetting | advmod |
| 23 | forgetting | forget | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 trembled | advcl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 times | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 times | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 times | cop |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 times | advmod |
| 28 | about | about | ADV | _ | 30 thousand | advmod |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 thousand | det |
| 30 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 times | nummod |
| 31 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 forgetting | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | as | as | ADV | _ | 33 large | advmod |
| 33 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 times | amod |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 Rabbit | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Rabbit | det |
| 36 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 large | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 had | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 had | cc |
| 39 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | parataxis |
| 40 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 41 reason | det |
| 41 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 had | obj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 afraid | mark |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 afraid | cop |
| 44 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 reason | acl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 it | case |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 afraid | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Alice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | pattering | the Rabbit | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | the Rabbit not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | the Rabbit not said here | for Alice | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | tremble | past | Alice | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | shake | past | Alice | the house | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent house=Patient | ||||
| 7 | forget | gerund | Alice not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | is a | past | Alice | thousand times | now | tree rules | |||
| 9 | have | past | no reason | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | |||||
| 10 | is | to-infinitive | no reason not said here | of pattering; afraid property | 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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