Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 90

She drew her foot as far down the chimney as she could, and waited till she heard a little animal (she couldn’t guess of what sort it was) scratching and scrambling about in the chimney close above her: then, saying to herself “This is Bill,” she gave one sharp kick, and waited to see what would happen next.

Who acts: master, This · What happens: draw, wait, hear, not guess, be, scratch · To what, where: foot, little animal, chimney, master, Bill, one sharp kick · 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 (master, This), 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	2 drew	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 foot	nmod:poss
4	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drew	obj
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 drew	advmod
7	down	down	ADP	_	9 chimney	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chimney	det
9	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 far	obl
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 could	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 could	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 far	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 waited	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 waited	cc
15	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drew	conj
16	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 heard	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heard	nsubj
18	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 waited	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 animal	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 animal	amod
21	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heard	obj
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	26 guess	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 guess	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 guess	aux
25	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 guess	advmod
26	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 waited	conj
27	of	of	SCONJ	_	29 sort	mark
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 sort	obj
29	sort	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 scratching	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sort	obj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sort	cop
32	)	)	PUNCT	_	29 sort	punct
33	scratching	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 guess	ccomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 scrambling	cc
35	scrambling	scramble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 scratching	conj
36	about	about	ADV	_	35 scrambling	advmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 chimney	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 chimney	det
39	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 scrambling	obl
40	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 scrambling	advmod
41	above	above	ADP	_	42 her	case
42	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 close	obl
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	46 saying	punct
44	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	46 saying	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 saying	punct
46	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 drew	advcl
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 herself	case
48	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	46 saying	obl
49	“	"	PUNCT	_	52 Bill	punct
50	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	52 Bill	nsubj
51	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 Bill	cop
52	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 saying	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 Bill	punct
54	”	"	PUNCT	_	52 Bill	punct
55	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 gave	nsubj
56	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 saying	ccomp
57	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	59 kick	nummod
58	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 kick	amod
59	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 gave	obj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 waited	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 waited	cc
62	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drew	conj
63	to	to	PART	_	64 see	mark
64	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 waited	advcl
65	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	67 happen	nsubj
66	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	67 happen	aux
67	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 see	ccomp
68	next	next	ADV	_	67 happen	advmod
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	master	master's foot				far property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
2	wait	past	master not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	past	master	a little animal					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus
4	not guess	could	master						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	is	past						sort property	tree rules
6	scratch	gerund							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	scramble	gerund				the chimney		about, close property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chimney=Trajectory
8	say speech: assert	gerund	master not said here		master		then		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to herself=Experiencer clause=Topic
9	is a in a quote	present	This	Bill					tree rules
10	give	past	master	one sharp kick					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kick=Theme
11	wait	past	master not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	see	to-infinitive	master not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
13	happen	would						next property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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