Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 77
This time there were _two_ little shrieks, and more sounds of broken glass.
Who acts: two little shrieks · What happens: be, break
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 (two little shrieks), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 were | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 were | expl |
| 4 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 shrieks | punct |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 shrieks | nummod |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 shrieks | punct |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shrieks | amod |
| 9 | shrieks | shriek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 were | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sounds | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sounds | cc |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 sounds | amod |
| 13 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shrieks | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 glass | case |
| 15 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 glass | amod |
| 16 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sounds | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | two little shrieks and more sounds of broken glass | there | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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