Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 75

The poor little thing was snorting like a steam-engine when she caught it, and kept doubling itself up and straightening itself out again, so that altogether, for the first minute or two, it was as much as she could do to hold it.

Who acts: poor little thing, Alice, engine · What happens: snort, catch, keep, double up, straighten out, be · To what, where: engine

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 (poor little thing, Alice, engine), 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	4 thing	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snorting	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 snorting	aux
6	snorting	snort	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 engine	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 engine	det
9	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 engine	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 steam	punct
11	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snorting	obl
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 caught	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 caught	nsubj
14	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 snorting	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 caught	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 kept	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 kept	cc
18	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 snorting	parataxis
19	doubling	double	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 kept	xcomp
20	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 doubling	obj
21	up	up	ADP	_	19 doubling	compound:prt
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 straightening	cc
23	straightening	straighten	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 doubling	conj
24	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 straightening	obj
25	out	out	ADP	_	23 straightening	compound:prt
26	again	again	ADV	_	23 straightening	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 altogether	punct
28	so	so	SCONJ	_	30 altogether	case
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 so	fixed
30	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	18 kept	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 minute	punct
32	for	for	ADP	_	35 minute	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 minute	det
34	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	35 minute	amod
35	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kept	obl
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 two	cc
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 minute	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 much	punct
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 much	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 much	cop
41	as	as	ADV	_	42 much	advmod
42	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 kept	conj
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	46 do	mark
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 do	nsubj
45	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 do	aux
46	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 much	acl
47	to	to	PART	_	48 hold	mark
48	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 do	advcl
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 hold	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 snorting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	snort	past · progressive	the poor little thing			like a steam engine	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	catch	past	Alice	engine			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	keep	past			minute	altogether property	tree rules
4	double up	gerund		engine			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
5	straighten out	gerund		engine	again		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
6	is	past	engine			much property	tree rules
7	do	could	Alice				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	hold	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	engine			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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