Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 130
Alice waited a little, half expecting to see it again, but it did not appear, and after a minute or two she walked on in the direction in which the March Hare was said to live.
Who acts: Alice, it · What happens: wait, expect, see, not appear, walk on, say · To what, where: little, Hare, direction, March Hare · 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 (Alice, it), 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 | 2 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 little | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 waited | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 expecting | punct |
| 6 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 7 expecting | det:predet |
| 7 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 waited | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 expecting | xcomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 see | obj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 see | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 appear | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 appear | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 appear | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 appear | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 appear | advmod |
| 17 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 waited | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 walked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 walked | cc |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 minute | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 minute | det |
| 22 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 walked | obl |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 two | cc |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 minute | conj |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 walked | nsubj |
| 26 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | conj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 walked | compound:prt |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 direction | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 direction | det |
| 30 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 walked | obl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 which | case |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 said | obl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Hare | det |
| 34 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Hare | compound |
| 35 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 said | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 said | aux:pass |
| 37 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 direction | acl:relcl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 live | mark |
| 39 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 said | xcomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | Alice | a little | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | expect | gerund | Alice not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | Hare | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | not appear | past · do-support | it | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | walk on | past | Alice | the direction | minute | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past · passive | the March Hare | the direction | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | live | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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