Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 51

The Duchess took no notice of them even when they hit her; and the baby was howling so much already, that it was quite impossible to say whether the blows hurt it or not.

Who acts: Duchess, irons, baby, blows · What happens: take, hit, howl, be, say, hurt · To what, where: notice, Duchess, baby, irons · 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 (Duchess, irons, baby, blows), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Duchess	det
2	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 notice	det
5	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 notice	nmod
8	even	even	ADV	_	11 hit	advmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 hit	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hit	nsubj
11	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	advcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hit	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 howling	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 howling	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 baby	det
16	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 howling	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 howling	aux
18	howling	howl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 took	advcl
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADV	_	21 already	advmod
21	already	already	ADV	_	18 howling	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 impossible	punct
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 impossible	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 impossible	expl
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 impossible	cop
26	quite	quite	ADV	_	27 impossible	advmod
27	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 howling	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 say	mark
29	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 impossible	csubj
30	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	33 hurt	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 blows	det
32	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 hurt	nsubj
33	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 say	ccomp
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 hurt	obj
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 not	cc
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 hurt	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	the Duchess	no notice of irons		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
2	hit	past	irons = iron	Duchess		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme
3	howl	past · progressive	the baby			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the baby not said here		impossible property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	hurt	past	the blows	baby		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
7	notice			irons = iron		nom notice «communication 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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