Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 67

Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute, trying to make out which were the two sides of it; and as it was perfectly round, she found this a very difficult question.

Who acts: Alice, mushroom · What happens: remain, look, try, make out, be, find · To what, where: two sides, this

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, mushroom), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 remained	nsubj
2	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 remained	xcomp
4	thoughtfully	thoughtfully	ADV	_	3 looking	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 mushroom	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mushroom	det
7	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looking	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 minute	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 minute	det
10	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mushroom	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 trying	punct
12	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 looking	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 trying	xcomp
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 make	compound:prt
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 sides	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sides	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sides	det
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 sides	nummod
20	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 make	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sides	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 found	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 found	cc
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 round	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 round	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 round	cop
28	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	29 round	advmod
29	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 found	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 round	punct
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 found	nsubj
32	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remained	conj
33	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 found	obj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 question	det
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 difficult	advmod
36	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 question	amod
37	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 found	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remain	past	Alice			tree rules
2	look	gerund	Alice not said here		at the mushroom for a minute; thoughtfully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at mushroom=Theme
3	try	gerund	Alice not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	make out not said to happen	to-infinitive	Alice not said here			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past		the two sides	of mushroom	tree rules
6	is	past	mushroom		perfectly, round property	tree rules
7	find	past	Alice	this		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent this=Theme question=Attribute

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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