Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 75

There was a long silence after this, and Alice could only hear whispers now and then; such as, “Sure, I don’t like it, yer honour, at all, at all!”

Who acts: long silence, Alice, Rabbit · What happens: be, hear, not like · To what, where: whispers, silence · 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 (long silence, Alice, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 silence	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 silence	amod
5	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 this	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 silence	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hear	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hear	cc
10	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 hear	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hear	aux
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 hear	advmod
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 was	parataxis
14	whispers	whisper	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hear	obj
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 hear	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 then	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 now	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 like	punct
19	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	28 like	mark
20	as	as	ADP	_	19 such	fixed
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 like	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 like	punct
23	Sure	sure	INTJ	_	28 like	discourse
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Sure	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 like	nsubj
26	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 like	aux
27	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 like	advmod
28	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hear	parataxis
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 like	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 honour	punct
31	yer	y	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 honour	amod
32	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 like	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 all	punct
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 all	case
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 like	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 all	punct
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 all	case
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 all	conj
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 like	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	past	a long silence after this		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	could	Alice	whispers		now	tree rules
3	not like in a quote	present · do-support	the Rabbit = rabbit	silence			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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