Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 8
Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she went hunting about, and called out to her in an angry tone, “Why, Mary Ann, what _are_ you doing out here?
Who acts: Rabbit, Alice, Mary · What happens: notice, go, hunt, call out, do out · To what, where: Alice, angry tone · 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 (Rabbit, Alice, Mary), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 noticed | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Rabbit | det |
| 4 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 noticed | nsubj |
| 5 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 noticed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 went | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 noticed | conj |
| 11 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 went | xcomp |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 hunting | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 called | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 called | cc |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 noticed | parataxis |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 called | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 called | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 tone | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tone | det |
| 21 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tone | amod |
| 22 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 called | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 doing | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 doing | punct |
| 25 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 doing | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Mary | punct |
| 27 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 doing | nsubj |
| 28 | Ann | Ann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Mary | flat |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 doing | punct |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 35 doing | obj |
| 31 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 doing | nsubj |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 doing | aux |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 doing | punct |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 doing | nsubj |
| 35 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 noticed | parataxis |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 doing | compound:prt |
| 37 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 doing | advmod |
| 38 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | the Rabbit | Alice | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | past | Alice | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hunt | gerund | Alice not said here | about property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | call out speech: assert | participle | Alice | a angry tone | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | do out in a quote | present · progressive | Mary | here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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