Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 17
He was looking up into the sky all the time he was speaking, and this Alice thought decidedly uncivil.
Who acts: other, Alice · What happens: look up, speak, think · 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 (other, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looking | aux |
| 3 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 looking | compound:prt |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 sky | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sky | det |
| 7 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looking | obl |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 time | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 speaking | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 speaking | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 speaking | aux |
| 13 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 looking | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 thought | cc |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 Alice | det |
| 17 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 thought | nsubj |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looking | conj |
| 19 | decidedly | decidedly | ADV | _ | 20 uncivil | advmod |
| 20 | uncivil | uncivil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thought | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past · progressive | other | into the sky | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into sky=Theme | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past · progressive | other | time | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | this Alice | uncivil property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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