Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 21

At this moment the door of the house opened, and a large plate came skimming out, straight at the Footman’s head: it just grazed his nose, and broke to pieces against one of the trees behind him.

Who acts: door, large plate, plate · What happens: open, come, skim out, graze, break · To what, where: head, nose

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 (door, large plate, plate), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 opened	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 opened	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 door	nmod
9	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 plate	det
13	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 plate	amod
14	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 opened	conj
16	skimming	skim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 came	xcomp
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 skimming	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 head	punct
19	straight	straight	ADV	_	24 head	advmod
20	at	at	ADP	_	24 head	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Footman	det
22	Footman	Footman	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 head	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 Footman	case
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 skimming	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 grazed	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 grazed	nsubj
27	just	just	ADV	_	28 grazed	advmod
28	grazed	graze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	advcl
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 nose	nmod:poss
30	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grazed	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 broke	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 broke	cc
33	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 opened	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 pieces	case
35	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 broke	obl
36	against	against	ADP	_	37 one	case
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 broke	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 trees	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 trees	det
40	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 one	nmod
41	behind	behind	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 trees	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	the door of the house			moment		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	a large plate					tree rules
3	skim out	gerund	a large plate not said here		the Footman's head			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent
4	graze	past	plate	other's nose				vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Experiencer
5	break	past	the door of the house not said here				to pieces; against one of the trees behind other	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against one=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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