Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 62

And with that she began nursing her child again, singing a sort of lullaby to it as she did so, and giving it a violent shake at the end of every line:

Who acts: Duchess · What happens: begin, nurse, sing, do, give, sort · To what, where: child, sort, lullaby, end

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), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 began	cc
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 that	case
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 began	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	nursing	nurse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 began	xcomp
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 child	nmod:poss
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nursing	obj
9	again	again	ADV	_	6 nursing	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 singing	punct
11	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 nursing	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sort	det
13	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 singing	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 lullaby	case
15	lullaby	lullaby	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sort	nmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 singing	obl
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 did	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 did	nsubj
20	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 singing	advcl
21	so	so	ADV	_	20 did	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 giving	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 giving	cc
24	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 began	advcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 giving	obj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 shake	det
27	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 shake	amod
28	shake	shake	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 giving	obj
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 end	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 end	det
31	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 giving	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 line	case
33	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	34 line	det
34	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 end	nmod
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Duchess				with that	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	nurse	gerund	Duchess not said here		Duchess's child	again		vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary
3	sing speech: express	gerund	Duchess not said here	a sort of lullaby	lullaby			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sort=Topic to it=Recipient
4	do	past	Duchess					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	give	gerund	Duchess not said here	sort		at the end of every line		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Recipient shake=Theme at end=Asset
6	sort			lullaby				nom sort «cognition 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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