Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 74

Alice caught the baby with some difficulty, as it was a queer-shaped little creature, and held out its arms and legs in all directions, “just like a star-fish,” thought Alice.

Who acts: Alice, baby, shaped little creature · What happens: catch, shape, be, hold out, think · To what, where: baby, shaped little creature, arms, directions, Alice

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, baby, shaped little creature), 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 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 baby	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 difficulty	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 difficulty	det
7	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 creature	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 creature	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 creature	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 creature	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 creature	det
13	queer	queer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shaped	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 queer	punct
15	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 creature	amod
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 creature	amod
17	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 thought	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 held	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 held	cc
20	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 creature	acl
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 held	compound:prt
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 arms	nmod:poss
23	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 held	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 legs	cc
25	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 arms	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 directions	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 directions	det
28	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 held	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fish	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	36 fish	punct
31	just	just	ADV	_	36 fish	advmod
32	like	like	ADP	_	36 fish	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 fish	det
34	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fish	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 star	punct
36	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 directions	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 directions	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 held	punct
39	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caught	parataxis
40	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 thought	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch	past	Alice	the baby		with some difficulty	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme
2	shape	participle					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	is a	past	baby	a shaped little creature			tree rules
4	hold out	participle	a shaped little creature not said here	baby's arms and legs	all directions and a star fish		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent arm=Theme in direction=Location
5	think speech: other	past	a shaped little creature	Alice			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot alice=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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