Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 132
As she said this, she looked up, and there was the Cat again, sitting on a branch of a tree.
Who acts: Hatter · What happens: say, look up, be · To what, where: this, branch · 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 (Hatter), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 said | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 looked | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 said | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sitting | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 looked | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 was | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 was | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sitting | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Cat | det |
| 14 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 was | nsubj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 was | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sitting | punct |
| 17 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 branch | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 branch | det |
| 20 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sitting | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 tree | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 branch | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hatter | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | look up | past | Hatter | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | past | a branch of a tree | sit property | tree rules |
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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