Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 97

There was a dead silence instantly, and Alice thought to herself, “I wonder what they _will_ do next!

Who acts: dead silence, Alice, shriek · What happens: be, think, wonder, _, do · To what, where: Alice · 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 (dead silence, Alice, shriek), 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	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 silence	amod
5	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thought	cc
9	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 thought	nsubj
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 herself	case
12	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 thought	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wonder	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 wonder	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 wonder	nsubj
16	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thought	parataxis
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 do	obj
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 _	nsubj
19	_	_	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 what	acl:relcl
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 do	aux
21	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 do	punct
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wonder	ccomp
23	next	next	ADV	_	22 do	advmod
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a dead silence		there	instantly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	Alice	Alice			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	wonder speech: ask in a quote	present	Alice				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	_ in a quote	present	shriek				tree rules
5	do in a quote	future				next property	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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