Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 94

“Cheshire Puss,” she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider.

Who acts: Cheshire, child · What happens: begin, do, not know, like, grin · To what, where: name, little wider · 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 (Cheshire, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Cheshire	punct
2	Cheshire	Cheshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 began	nsubj
3	Puss	Puss	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Cheshire	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Cheshire	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Cheshire	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 timidly	punct
9	rather	rather	ADV	_	10 timidly	advmod
10	timidly	timidly	ADV	_	7 began	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 did	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 did	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 did	nsubj
14	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	conj
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 know	advmod
16	at	at	SCONJ	_	18 know	mark
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 know	advmod
18	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 did	advcl
19	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	22 like	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 like	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 like	aux
22	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 know	ccomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 name	det
24	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 like	obj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 grinned	punct
26	however	however	ADV	_	30 grinned	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 however	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 grinned	nsubj
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 grinned	advmod
30	grinned	grin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 wider	det
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 wider	amod
33	wider	wider	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 grinned	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Cheshire		timidly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	do	past	Cheshire			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not know	present	Cheshire not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	like	would	child	the name		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot name=Theme
5	grin	past	child	a little wider	however property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wider=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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