Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 87
Alice was just beginning to think to herself, “Now, what am I to do with this creature when I get it home?” when it grunted again, so violently, that she looked down into its face in some alarm.
Who acts: Alice, mind · What happens: begin, think, do, get, grunt, look down · To what, where: Alice, mind · 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 (Alice, mind), 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 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 beginning | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beginning | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 beginning | advmod |
| 4 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 think | mark |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 beginning | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 herself | case |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 think | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 11 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 do | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Now | punct |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 do | obj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 beginning | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 creature | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 creature | det |
| 20 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | obl |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 get | advmod |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 get | nsubj |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | advcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 get | obj |
| 25 | home | home | ADV | _ | 23 get | advmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 grunted | advmod |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 grunted | nsubj |
| 30 | grunted | grunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | advcl |
| 31 | again | again | ADV | _ | 30 grunted | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 violently | punct |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 violently | advmod |
| 34 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 4 beginning | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 looked | punct |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 looked | mark |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 looked | nsubj |
| 38 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beginning | conj |
| 39 | down | down | ADV | _ | 38 looked | advmod |
| 40 | into | into | ADP | _ | 42 face | case |
| 41 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 face | nmod:poss |
| 42 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 looked | obl |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 alarm | case |
| 44 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 45 alarm | det |
| 45 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 face | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beginning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past · progressive | Alice | violently property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | Alice | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | Alice | now | with this creature | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | get in a quote | present | Alice | mind | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | grunt | past | mind | again | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | look down | past | Alice | into mind's face in some alarm; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=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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