Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 128
“It turned into a pig,” Alice quietly said, just as if it had come back in a natural way.
Who acts: Hare, Alice · What happens: turn, say, come back · To what, where: natural way · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Hare, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | parataxis |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 pig | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pig | det |
| 6 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
| 9 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 10 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 come | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 come | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 come | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 way | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 way | det |
| 22 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 way | amod |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn in a quote | past | Hare | into a pig result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into pig=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Alice | quietly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come back a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Hare | a natural way | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location |
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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