Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 93
It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had _very_ long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be treated with respect.
Who acts: child, Alice · What happens: look, think, have, feel, treat · To what, where: child
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 (child, Alice), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 natured | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 5 | natured | natured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 had | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 claws | parataxis |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 long | advmod |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 very | punct |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 claws | amod |
| 17 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 teeth | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 teeth | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 teeth | amod |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 teeth | amod |
| 22 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 claws | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 felt | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 felt | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 felt | nsubj |
| 26 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 treated | mark |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 treated | aux |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 treated | mark |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 treated | aux:pass |
| 32 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 felt | advcl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 respect | case |
| 34 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 treated | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | child | natured property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Alice | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | past | child | still | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | Alice | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | treat | ought · passive | child | with respect | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with respect=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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