Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 57
She did not get hold of anything, but she heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass, from which she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber-frame, or something of the sort.
Who acts: Alice, hold, broken glass · What happens: not get, hear, break, conclude, be, fall · To what, where: hold, little shriek, cucumber frame, anything
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, hold, broken glass), 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 | 4 get | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 get | advmod |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 anything | case |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 hold | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 heard | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 shriek | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 shriek | amod |
| 14 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fall | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fall | det |
| 17 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shriek | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 crash | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 crash | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 crash | det |
| 21 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 glass | case |
| 23 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 glass | amod |
| 24 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crash | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 concluded | punct |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 which | case |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 concluded | obl |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 concluded | nsubj |
| 29 | concluded | conclude | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | conj |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 possible | mark |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 possible | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 possible | cop |
| 33 | just | just | ADV | _ | 34 possible | advmod |
| 34 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 concluded | ccomp |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 fallen | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 fallen | aux |
| 37 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 possible | acl:relcl |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 42 frame | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 frame | det |
| 40 | cucumber | cucumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 frame | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 cucumber | punct |
| 42 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 fallen | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 something | punct |
| 44 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 45 something | cc |
| 45 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 get | parataxis |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 sort | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 sort | det |
| 48 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 something | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | past · do-support | Alice | hold of anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Alice | a little shriek and a fall | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer shriek=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | conclude | past | Alice | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from which=Source | |||||
| 5 | is | past | hold | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | fall | past · perfect | hold | into a cucumber frame result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into frame=Result | ||||
| 7 | hold | anything | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | crash | broken glass | nom crash «event 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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