Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 9

Alice laughed so much at this, that she had to run back into the wood for fear of their hearing her; and when she next peeped out the Fish-Footman was gone, and the other was sitting on the ground near the door, staring stupidly up into the sky.

Who acts: Alice, Fish Footman, other, fear · What happens: laugh, have, run back, be, sit, stare · To what, where: this, wood, ground

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, Fish Footman, other, fear), 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	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	2 laughed	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 laughed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 had	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 run	mark
12	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	xcomp
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 run	advmod
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 wood	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wood	det
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 run	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 fear	case
18	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 run	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 hearing	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hearing	nmod:poss
21	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fear	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hearing	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 gone	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 gone	cc
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 peeped	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 peeped	nsubj
27	next	next	ADV	_	28 peeped	advmod
28	peeped	peep	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 gone	cop
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 peeped	compound:prt
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Footman	det
31	Fish	Fish	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Footman	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 Fish	punct
33	Footman	Footman	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 gone	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 gone	cop
35	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 laughed	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 sitting	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 sitting	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 other	det
39	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 sitting	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 sitting	aux
41	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 gone	conj
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 ground	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 ground	det
44	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sitting	obl
45	near	near	ADP	_	47 door	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 door	det
47	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sitting	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 staring	punct
49	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 sitting	advcl
50	stupidly	stupidly	ADV	_	51 up	advmod
51	up	up	ADV	_	49 staring	advmod
52	into	into	ADP	_	54 sky	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 sky	det
54	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 staring	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	Alice	this		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	Alice			tree rules
3	run back	to-infinitive	Alice not said here		into the wood result; for fear and fear's hearing	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result
4	is	past	the Fish Footman		gone property	tree rules
5	sit	past · progressive	the other	the ground	near the door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
6	stare	gerund	the other not said here		into the sky	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into sky=Theme
7	hear		fear			nom hearing «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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