Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 86

The poor little thing sobbed again (or grunted, it was impossible to say which), and they went on for some while in silence.

Who acts: things · What happens: sob, grunt, be, say, go on · To what, where: poor little thing · 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 (things), 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	root	root
5	sobbed	sob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 thing	acl
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 sobbed	advmod
7	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 grunted	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 grunted	cc
9	grunted	grunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sobbed	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 impossible	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 impossible	expl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 impossible	cop
13	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grunted	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 say	mark
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 impossible	csubj
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 say	obj
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 which	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 grunted	conj
22	on	on	ADV	_	21 went	advmod
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 while	case
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 while	det
25	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 silence	case
27	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 while	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sob	participle		the poor little thing not said here	again		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grunt	participle					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past				impossible property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic
5	go on	past	things = thing		while		vn function-105.2.1 «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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