Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 82
“But perhaps it was only sobbing,” she thought, and looked into its eyes again, to see if there were any tears.
Who acts: doubt, Alice, tears · What happens: sob, think, look, see, be · 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 (doubt, Alice, tears), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sobbing | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 sobbing | cc |
| 3 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 7 sobbing | advmod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sobbing | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sobbing | aux |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 sobbing | advmod |
| 7 | sobbing | sob | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 thought | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sobbing | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sobbing | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looked | cc |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 eyes | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 looked | obl |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 looked | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 looked | conj |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 were | mark |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 were | expl |
| 24 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 see | ccomp |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 tears | det |
| 26 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 were | nsubj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sob in a quote | past · progressive | doubt | perhaps property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Alice | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | past | again | into doubt's eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | be a condition, not said to happen | past | any tears | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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