Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 79
She was moving them about as she spoke, but no result seemed to follow, except a little shaking among the distant green leaves.
Who acts: Alice, result · What happens: move, speak, seem, follow · To what, where: hands · 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, result), 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 | 3 moving | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 moving | aux |
| 3 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 moving | obj |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 spoke | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 spoke | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 spoke | nsubj |
| 8 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 moving | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seemed | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 seemed | cc |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 result | det |
| 12 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seemed | nsubj |
| 13 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 moving | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 follow | mark |
| 15 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 seemed | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 shaking | punct |
| 17 | except | except | ADP | _ | 20 shaking | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 shaking | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 shaking | amod |
| 20 | shaking | shaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 follow | obl |
| 21 | among | among | ADP | _ | 25 leaves | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 leaves | det |
| 23 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 leaves | amod |
| 24 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 leaves | amod |
| 25 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 shaking | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 moving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past · progressive | Alice | hands = hand | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | Alice | about property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | no result | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | follow | to-infinitive | no result not said here | except a little shaking among the distant green leaves | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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