Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 8
Then they both bowed low, and their curls got entangled together.
Who acts: words · What happens: bow, entangle · To what, where: curls
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 (words), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 bowed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bowed | nsubj |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 4 bowed | advmod |
| 4 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bowed | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 entangled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 entangled | cc |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 curls | nmod:poss |
| 9 | curls | curl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 entangled | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 entangled | aux:pass |
| 11 | entangled | entangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bowed | conj |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 entangled | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | words = word | then | both, low property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | entangle | past · passive | words's curls | together property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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