Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 59

Alice glanced rather anxiously at the cook, to see if she meant to take the hint; but the cook was busily stirring the soup, and seemed not to be listening, so she went on again: “Twenty-four hours, I _think_; or is it twelve?

Who acts: Alice, cook, Duchess, soup · What happens: glance, see, mean, take, stir, seem · To what, where: hint, soup, four hours, twelve

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 (Alice, cook, Duchess, soup), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 glanced	nsubj
2	glanced	glance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rather	rather	ADV	_	4 anxiously	advmod
4	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	_	2 glanced	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 cook	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cook	det
7	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glanced	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	10 see	mark
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 glanced	conj
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 meant	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 meant	nsubj
13	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 see	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 take	mark
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 meant	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hint	det
17	hint	hint	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 stirring	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 stirring	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cook	det
21	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stirring	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 stirring	aux
23	busily	busily	ADV	_	24 stirring	advmod
24	stirring	stir	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 glanced	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 soup	det
26	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stirring	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 seemed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 seemed	cc
29	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 glanced	parataxis
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 listening	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	33 listening	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 listening	aux
33	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 seemed	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 went	punct
35	so	so	ADV	_	37 went	advmod
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 went	nsubj
37	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 seemed	conj
38	on	on	ADV	_	37 went	advmod
39	again	again	ADV	_	37 went	advmod
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 hours	punct
41	“	"	PUNCT	_	45 hours	punct
42	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 four	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 Twenty	punct
44	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 hours	nummod
45	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 went	obl:unmarked
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 think	punct
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 think	nsubj
48	_	_	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 think	aux
49	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 hours	acl:relcl
50	_	_	PUNCT	_	49 think	punct
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	55 twelve	punct
52	or	or	CCONJ	_	55 twelve	cc
53	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 twelve	cop
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 twelve	nsubj
55	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 glanced	obl
56	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 glanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	glance	past	Alice			at the cook; anxiously property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cook=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	Alice not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	mean a condition, not said to happen	past	Alice				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	the hint			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hint=Theme
5	stir	past · progressive	the cook	the soup		busily property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soup=Experiencer
6	seem	past					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
7	not listen	to-infinitive · progressive					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
8	go on	past	cook		again; hour		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	think speech: other in a quote		the Duchess = duchess	four hours not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hour=Theme
10	is a in a quote	present	soup	twelve			tree rules

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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