Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 91

The first thing she heard was a general chorus of “There goes Bill!” then the Rabbit’s voice along—“Catch him, you by the hedge!” then silence, and then another confusion of voices—“Hold up his head—Brandy now—Don’t choke him—How was it, old fellow?

Who acts: thing, first thing, voice · What happens: hear, be, go, catch, hold up, not choke · To what, where: first thing, general chorus, Bill, head, voices · 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 (thing, first thing, voice), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chorus	nsubj
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 chorus	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 chorus	det
8	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 chorus	amod
9	chorus	chorus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 goes	mark
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 goes	punct
12	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 goes	expl
13	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 voice	advcl
14	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 goes	obj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 Bill	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 goes	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 voice	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Rabbit	det
19	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 voice	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 Rabbit	case
21	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chorus	nmod
22	along	along	ADP	_	25 Catch	mark
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	25 Catch	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 Catch	punct
25	Catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 voice	acl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 Catch	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 you	punct
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 Catch	obl
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 hedge	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hedge	det
31	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Catch	obl
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 Catch	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 Catch	punct
34	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 silence	advmod
35	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Catch	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 confusion	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 confusion	cc
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 confusion	advmod
39	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	40 confusion	det
40	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chorus	conj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 voices	case
42	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 confusion	nmod
43	—	-	PUNCT	_	45 Hold	punct
44	“	"	PUNCT	_	45 Hold	punct
45	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 chorus	parataxis
46	up	up	ADP	_	45 Hold	compound:prt
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 head	nmod:poss
48	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 Hold	obj
49	—	-	PUNCT	_	50 Brandy	punct
50	Brandy	Brandy	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 head	appos
51	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	45 Hold	advmod
52	—	-	PUNCT	_	55 choke	punct
53	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	55 choke	aux
54	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	55 choke	advmod
55	choke	choke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	45 Hold	conj
56	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 choke	obj
57	—	-	PUNCT	_	55 choke	punct
58	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	60 it	advmod
59	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 it	cop
60	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 choke	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 fellow	punct
62	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 fellow	amod
63	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 choke	parataxis
64	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 chorus	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	thing	the first thing not said here					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	is a	past	the first thing	a general chorus and another confusion of voices				the Rabbit's voice nmod	tree rules
3	go in a quote	present	the first thing not said here	Bill		there			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bill=Theme
4	catch in a quote	infinitive	the Rabbit's voice not said here	Bill				by the hedge; you obl; silence obl	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	hold up in a quote	infinitive		Bill's head			now		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot head=Theme
6	not choke in a quote	infinitive · do-support			Bill				vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination
7	is a in a quote	past		head					tree rules
8	confuse			voices					nom confusion «state transitive»: of=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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