Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 70
She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but she felt that there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking rapidly; so she set to work at once to eat some of the other bit.
Who acts: Alice, time · What happens: be, frighten, feel, lose, shrink, set · To what, where: good deal, some
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, time), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 deal | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 deal | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 deal | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 deal | amod |
| 5 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 deal | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 change | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 change | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 sudden | advmod |
| 10 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 change | amod |
| 11 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 frightened | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 felt | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 felt | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 felt | nsubj |
| 15 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 deal | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 was | mark |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 felt | advcl |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 was | nsubj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 lost | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 lost | aux:pass |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 time | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 shrinking | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 shrinking | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 shrinking | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 shrinking | aux |
| 28 | shrinking | shrink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 lost | advcl |
| 29 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 28 shrinking | advmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 set | punct |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 set | advmod |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 set | nsubj |
| 33 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 felt | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 work | mark |
| 35 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 set | xcomp |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 once | case |
| 37 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 35 work | obl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 eat | mark |
| 39 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 work | advcl |
| 40 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 eat | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 bit | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 bit | det |
| 43 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 bit | amod |
| 44 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 some | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 deal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Alice | a good deal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | frighten | participle | a good deal not said here | by this sudden change | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | Alice | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | be | past | no time | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lose | to-infinitive · passive | no time not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 6 | shrink | past · progressive | Alice | rapidly property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | set | past | Alice | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | work | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at once=Theme | |||||
| 9 | eat | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | some | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=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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