Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 139
She had not gone much farther before she came in sight of the house of the March Hare: she thought it must be the right house, because the chimneys were shaped like ears and the roof was thatched with fur.
Who acts: Alice, house · What happens: not go, come, think, be, shape, thatch · To what, where: sight, right house, chimneys, roof, house · 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, house), 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 | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 gone | advmod |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 farther | advmod |
| 6 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 gone | advmod |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 sight | case |
| 11 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sight | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Hare | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Hare | det |
| 17 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Hare | compound |
| 18 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 house | nmod |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 thought | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 thought | nsubj |
| 21 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | parataxis |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 house | nsubj |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 house | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 house | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 house | det |
| 26 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 house | amod |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 thought | ccomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 shaped | punct |
| 29 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 33 shaped | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 chimneys | det |
| 31 | chimneys | chimney | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 shaped | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 shaped | aux:pass |
| 33 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 thought | conj |
| 34 | like | like | ADP | _ | 35 ears | case |
| 35 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 shaped | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 thatched | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 roof | det |
| 38 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 thatched | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 thatched | aux:pass |
| 40 | thatched | thatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 shaped | conj |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 fur | case |
| 42 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 thatched | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past · perfect | Alice | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Alice | sight of the house of the March Hare | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Alice | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | must | house | the right house | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | shape | past · passive | the chimneys | like ears | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 6 | thatch | past · passive | the roof | with fur | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with fur=Theme | ||||
| 7 | sight | the house of the March Hare | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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