Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 69

“And now which is which?” she said to herself, and nibbled a little of the right-hand bit to try the effect: the next moment she felt a violent blow underneath her chin: it had struck her foot!

Who acts: Alice, bit · What happens: be, say, nibble, try, feel, strike · To what, where: Alice, little hand bit, effect, violent blow, chin, foot · 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, bit), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 which	cc
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 which	advmod
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 which	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 which	cop
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 said	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 which	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 which	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 herself	case
12	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 nibbled	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 nibbled	cc
15	nibbled	nibble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 little	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bit	amod
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 hand	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hand	det
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hand	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 right	punct
22	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bit	compound
23	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nibbled	obl:unmarked
24	to	to	PART	_	25 try	mark
25	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 nibbled	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 effect	det
27	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 try	obj
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 moment	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 moment	det
30	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 moment	amod
31	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 effect	appos
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 felt	nsubj
33	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 moment	acl:relcl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 blow	det
35	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 blow	amod
36	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 felt	obj
37	underneath	underneath	ADP	_	39 chin	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 chin	nmod:poss
39	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 blow	nmod
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	43 struck	punct
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 struck	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 struck	aux
43	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	conj
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 foot	nmod:poss
45	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 struck	obj
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present					now	tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past			Alice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient
3	nibble	past		little hand bit				vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	try	to-infinitive		the effect				vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Eventuality
5	feel	past	Alice	a violent blow		Alice's chin		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent blow=Theme underneath chin=Location
6	strike	past · perfect	bit	Alice's foot				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient

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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