Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 14
He had been looking at Alice for some time with great curiosity, and this was his first speech.
Who acts: Hatter, this · What happens: look, be · To what, where: first speech
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 (Hatter, this), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looking | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looking | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 looking | aux |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Alice | case |
| 6 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 looking | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looking | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 curiosity | case |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 curiosity | amod |
| 12 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 time | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 speech | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 speech | cc |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 speech | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 speech | cop |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 speech | nmod:poss |
| 18 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 speech | amod |
| 19 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looking | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · perfect · progressive | Hatter | time | at Alice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at alice=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | this | Hatter's first speech | tree rules |
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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