Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 39
Even the Duchess sneezed occasionally; and as for the baby, it was sneezing and howling alternately without a moment’s pause.
Who acts: Duchess, much · What happens: sneeze, howl
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 (Duchess, much), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 4 sneezed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Duchess | det |
| 3 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sneezed | nsubj |
| 4 | sneezed | sneeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | occasionally | occasionally | ADV | _ | 4 sneezed | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 baby | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 baby | cc |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 baby | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 baby | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 baby | det |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sneezed | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sneezing | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sneezing | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sneezing | aux |
| 15 | sneezing | sneeze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 baby | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 howling | cc |
| 17 | howling | howl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 sneezing | conj |
| 18 | alternately | alternately | ADV | _ | 17 howling | advmod |
| 19 | without | without | ADP | _ | 23 pause | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 moment | det |
| 21 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pause | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 moment | case |
| 23 | pause | pause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 howling | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sneezed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sneeze | past | the Duchess | occasionally property | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sneeze | past · progressive | much | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | howl | gerund | much not said here | without a moment's pause; alternately property | vn animal_sounds-38 «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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