Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 137
“They were learning to draw,” the Dormouse went on, yawning and rubbing its eyes, for it was getting very sleepy; “and they drew all manner of things—everything that begins with an M—”
Who acts: Hare, Dormouse, answer · What happens: learn, draw, go on, yawn, rub, get · To what, where: eyes, manner
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare, Dormouse, answer), 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 | _ | 4 learning | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 learning | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 learning | aux |
| 4 | learning | learn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 went | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 draw | mark |
| 6 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 learning | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 learning | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 learning | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Dormouse | det |
| 10 | Dormouse | Dormouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 yawning | punct |
| 14 | yawning | yawn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 went | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rubbing | cc |
| 16 | rubbing | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 yawning | conj |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rubbing | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 getting | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 getting | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 getting | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 getting | aux |
| 23 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 yawning | conj |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 sleepy | advmod |
| 25 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 getting | xcomp |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 drew | punct |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 drew | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 drew | cc |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 drew | nsubj |
| 30 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 manner | det |
| 32 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 drew | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 things | case |
| 34 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 manner | nmod |
| 35 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 everything | punct |
| 36 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 34 things | appos |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 begins | nsubj |
| 38 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 everything | acl:relcl |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 M | case |
| 40 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 M | det |
| 41 | M | M | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 begins | obl |
| 42 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn in a quote | past · progressive | Hare | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | draw in a quote | to-infinitive | Hare not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go on | past | the Dormouse | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | yawn | gerund | the Dormouse not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | rub | gerund | the Dormouse not said here | answer's eyes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 6 | get | past · progressive | answer | sleepy property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | draw in a quote | past | Hare | all manner of things | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manner=Theme | ||||
| 8 | begin in a quote | present | with a M | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with m=Subeventuality |
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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