Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 118
As she said this, she came suddenly upon an open place, with a little house in it about four feet high.
Who acts: neck · What happens: say, come · To what, where: this, open place · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (neck), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 said | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 said | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 8 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 place | amod |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 house | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 house | amod |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 house | nmod |
| 20 | about | about | ADV | _ | 21 four | advmod |
| 21 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 feet | nummod |
| 22 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 high | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 house | amod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | neck | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | past | neck | a open place | with a little house in house; suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon place=Location |
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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