Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 3
She felt very curious to know what it was all about, and crept a little way out of the wood to listen.
Who acts: footman, door · What happens: feel, know, be, creep, listen · To what, where: little way, wood
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 (footman, door), 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 | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 curious | advmod |
| 4 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 felt | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 curious | advcl |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 know | obj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 about | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 about | cop |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 about | advmod |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 crept | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 crept | cc |
| 14 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 way | amod |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crept | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 wood | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 wood | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wood | det |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crept | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 listen | mark |
| 23 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 crept | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | footman | curious property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | footman not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | past | door | about, all property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | creep | past | footman not said here | a little way | the wood | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location way=Theme | |||
| 5 | listen | to-infinitive | footman not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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