Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 73
The cook threw a frying-pan after her as she went out, but it just missed her.
Who acts: cook, Duchess, pan · What happens: throw, go out, miss · To what, where: frying pan, Duchess
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 (cook, Duchess, pan), 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 cook | det |
| 2 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pan | det |
| 5 | frying | frying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pan | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 frying | punct |
| 7 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obj |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | obl |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 went | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 missed | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 missed | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 missed | nsubj |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 missed | advmod |
| 18 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 missed | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | the cook | a frying pan | after Duchess | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pan=Theme | |||
| 2 | go out | past | Duchess | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | miss | past | pan | Duchess | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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