Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 53

“Oh, there goes his _precious_ nose!” as an unusually large saucepan flew close by it, and very nearly carried it off.

Who acts: unusually large saucepan · What happens: go, fly, carry off · To what, where: precious nose, 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 (unusually large saucepan), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 goes	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 goes	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 goes	expl
5	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 nose	nmod:poss
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 precious	punct
8	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nose	amod
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 precious	punct
10	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goes	obj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 goes	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 goes	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 flew	mark
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 saucepan	det
15	unusually	unusually	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 saucepan	amod
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 saucepan	amod
17	saucepan	saucepan	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flew	nsubj
18	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 goes	advcl
19	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 flew	advmod
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 flew	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 carried	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 carried	cc
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 nearly	advmod
25	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	26 carried	advmod
26	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 flew	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 carried	obj
28	off	off	ADP	_	26 carried	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present		Pig's precious nose	there		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nose=Theme
2	fly	past	a unusually large saucepan			by nose; close property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by it=Location
3	carry off	past	a unusually large saucepan not said here	nose		nearly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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