Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 54

Presently the Rabbit came up to the door, and tried to open it; but, as the door opened inwards, and Alice’s elbow was pressed hard against it, that attempt proved a failure.

Who acts: Rabbit, door, attempt · What happens: come up, try, open, press, prove · To what, where: door, Rabbit, elbow, failure

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 (Rabbit, door, attempt), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Rabbit	det
3	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tried	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tried	cc
11	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 open	mark
13	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tried	xcomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 open	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 opened	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 opened	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 but	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 opened	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 door	det
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 opened	nsubj
21	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
22	inwards	inwards	ADV	_	21 opened	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pressed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 pressed	cc
25	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 elbow	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 Alice	case
27	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pressed	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 pressed	aux:pass
29	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 came	conj
30	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 pressed	advmod
31	against	against	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 pressed	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 proved	punct
34	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 attempt	det
35	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 proved	nsubj
36	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 failure	det
38	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 proved	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the Rabbit		the door	presently property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
2	try	past	the Rabbit not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	open not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Rabbit not said here	Rabbit			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
4	open	past	the door			inwards property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	press	past · passive		Alice's elbow		against Rabbit; hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	prove	past	that attempt	a failure			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent failure=Theme

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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