Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 124
Alice was not much surprised at this, she was getting so used to queer things happening.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: not be, get, queer, happen · To what, where: this, things
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice), 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 | 5 surprised | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 surprised | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 surprised | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 surprised | advmod |
| 5 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 surprised | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 getting | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 getting | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 getting | aux |
| 11 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 surprised | advcl |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 used | advmod |
| 13 | used | used | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 getting | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 queer | mark |
| 15 | queer | queer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 used | advcl |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 queer | obj |
| 17 | happening | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 queer | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Alice | this | surprised property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | past · progressive | Alice | used property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | queer | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | things | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | happen | gerund | Alice not said here | 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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