Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 89
So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved to see it trot away quietly into the wood.
Who acts: Alice, mistake · What happens: set, feel, see, trot away · To what, where: little creature, mistake, wood
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, mistake), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 creature | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 creature | amod |
| 6 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obj |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 felt | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 felt | cc |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 relieved | advmod |
| 12 | relieved | relieved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 felt | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 felt | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 see | obj |
| 16 | trot | trot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 see | xcomp |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 trot | advmod |
| 18 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 16 trot | advmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 wood | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wood | det |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 trot | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | Alice | the little creature | down property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient creature=Result | |||
| 2 | feel | past | Alice not said here | relieved property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | mistake | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | trot away | infinitive | mistake not said here | the wood | away, quietly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wood=Destination |
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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