Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 76

As soon as she had made out the proper way of nursing it, (which was to twist it up into a sort of knot, and then keep tight hold of its right ear and left foot, so as to prevent its undoing itself,) she carried it out into the open air.

Who acts: Alice, proper way, hold · What happens: make out, nurse, be, keep, prevent, carry out · To what, where: proper way, way, sort, tight hold, undoing, open air

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, proper way, hold), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 made	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 made	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	51 carried	advcl
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 made	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 way	amod
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl:unmarked
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 nursing	mark
12	nursing	nurse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 way	acl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 nursing	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 twist	punct
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	19 twist	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 twist	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 twist	cop
18	to	to	PART	_	19 twist	mark
19	twist	twist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 made	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 twist	obj
21	up	up	ADP	_	19 twist	compound:prt
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 sort	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sort	det
24	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 twist	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 knot	case
26	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sort	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 keep	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 keep	cc
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 keep	advmod
30	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 twist	conj
31	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hold	amod
32	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 keep	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 ear	case
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 ear	nmod:poss
35	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 ear	amod
36	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hold	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 foot	cc
38	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 foot	amod
39	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ear	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 prevent	punct
41	so	so	ADV	_	44 prevent	advmod
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 prevent	mark
43	to	to	PART	_	44 prevent	mark
44	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 keep	advcl
45	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 undoing	nmod:poss
46	undoing	undoing	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 prevent	obj
47	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	46 undoing	nmod:unmarked
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 prevent	punct
49	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 carried	nsubj
51	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 carried	obj
53	out	out	ADP	_	51 carried	compound:prt
54	into	into	ADP	_	57 air	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 air	det
56	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 air	amod
57	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 carried	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	51 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make out	past · perfect	Alice	the proper way			soon property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
2	nurse	gerund	the proper way not said here	way				vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary
3	is	past			a sort of knot		twist property	tree rules
4	keep	infinitive		tight hold of hold's right ear and left foot		then		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
5	prevent	to-infinitive		hold's undoing hold				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer undoing=Theme
6	carry out	past	Alice	undoing	the open air			vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
7	sort			knot				nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient
8	hold			hold's right ear and left foot				nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient
9	undo		hold					nom undoing «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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