Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 80
The baby grunted again, and Alice looked very anxiously into its face to see what was the matter with it.
Who acts: baby, Alice · What happens: grunt, look, see, be · To what, where: face, matter · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (baby, Alice), 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 baby | det |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grunted | nsubj |
| 3 | grunted | grunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 grunted | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 looked | cc |
| 7 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grunted | conj |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 anxiously | advmod |
| 10 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 13 face | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 face | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 face | nmod:poss |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 face | acl |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 matter | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 matter | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 matter | det |
| 19 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | ccomp |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 matter | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grunt | past | the baby | again | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Alice | baby's face | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | baby's face not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the matter | with baby | tree rules |
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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