Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 60
This time Alice waited patiently until it chose to speak again.
Who acts: Alice, tone · What happens: wait, choose, speak · 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 (Alice, tone), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waited | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 waited | nsubj |
| 4 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | patiently | patiently | ADV | _ | 4 waited | advmod |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 chose | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 chose | nsubj |
| 8 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waited | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 speak | mark |
| 10 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 chose | xcomp |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 speak | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | Alice | time | patiently property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | choose | past | tone | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | tone not said here | again | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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