Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 67

While the Duchess sang the second verse of the song, she kept tossing the baby violently up and down, and the poor little thing howled so, that Alice could hardly hear the words:—

Who acts: Duchess, Alice · What happens: sing, keep, toss, howl, hear, verse · To what, where: second verse, baby, poor little thing, words, song

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, Alice), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 sang	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Duchess	det
3	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 kept	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 verse	det
6	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 verse	amod
7	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 song	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 song	det
10	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 verse	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kept	nsubj
13	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	tossing	toss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 kept	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 baby	det
16	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tossing	obj
17	violently	violently	ADV	_	18 up	advmod
18	up	up	ADV	_	14 tossing	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 down	cc
20	down	down	ADV	_	18 up	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 howled	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 howled	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 thing	det
24	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 thing	amod
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 thing	amod
26	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 howled	nsubj:pass
27	howled	howl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 kept	conj
28	so	so	ADV	_	27 howled	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 hear	punct
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 hear	mark
31	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 hear	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 hear	aux
33	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	34 hear	advmod
34	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 howled	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 words	det
36	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 hear	obj
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 kept	punct
38	—	-	PUNCT	_	13 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the Duchess	the second verse of the song		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location verse=Theme
2	keep	past	Duchess			tree rules
3	toss	gerund	Duchess not said here	the baby		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
4	howl	participle · passive		the poor little thing		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
5	hear	could	Alice	the words	hardly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
6	verse			the song		nom verse «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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