Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 1

The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice.

Who acts: Caterpillar · What happens: look, take, address · To what, where: hookah, mouth, Alice, languid sleepy voice

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Caterpillar), 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	2 Caterpillar	det
2	Caterpillar	Caterpillar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 looked	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Alice	cc
4	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Caterpillar	conj
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 each	case
7	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	5 looked	obl
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 each	fixed
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 time	case
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looked	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 silence	case
13	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 time	nmod
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 took	punct
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 Caterpillar	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Caterpillar	amod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Caterpillar	det
18	Caterpillar	Caterpillar	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 took	obl
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looked	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hookah	det
21	hookah	hookah	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obj
22	out	out	ADP	_	25 mouth	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 mouth	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mouth	nmod:poss
25	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 addressed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 addressed	cc
28	addressed	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 took	conj
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 addressed	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	35 voice	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 voice	det
32	languid	languid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 voice	amod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 languid	punct
34	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 voice	amod
35	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 addressed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the Caterpillar and Alice				time	at each	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme
2	take	past		the hookah		hookah's mouth		at the last Caterpillar	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent hookah=Theme out mouth=Initial_Location
3	address	past			Alice	a languid sleepy voice			vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination

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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