Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 92
The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.
Who acts: Cat, child · What happens: grin, see · To what, where: Alice
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 (Cat, child), 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 | 2 Cat | det |
| 2 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grinned | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 grinned | advmod |
| 4 | grinned | grin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 saw | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grinned | ccomp |
| 8 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grinned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grin | past | the Cat | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | past | child | Alice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer alice=Stimulus |
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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