Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 29

“What day of the month is it?” he said, turning to Alice: he had taken his watch out of his pocket, and was looking at it uneasily, shaking it every now and then, and holding it to his ear.

Who acts: day, Hatter · What happens: be, say, turn, take, look, shake · To what, where: thing, Alice, watch, pocket · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (day, Hatter), 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	_	7 is	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 is	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 month	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 month	det
6	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	nmod
7	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 is	expl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 is	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 is	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 turning	punct
14	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Alice	case
16	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 turning	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 taken	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 taken	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 taken	aux
20	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 said	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 watch	nmod:poss
22	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taken	obj
23	out	out	ADP	_	26 pocket	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 pocket	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 pocket	nmod:poss
26	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taken	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 looking	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 looking	cc
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 looking	aux
30	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	advcl
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 looking	obl
33	uneasily	uneasily	ADV	_	30 looking	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 shaking	punct
35	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 looking	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 shaking	obj
37	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	36 it	det
38	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 shaking	advmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 then	cc
40	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 now	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 holding	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 holding	cc
43	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 looking	conj
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 holding	obj
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 ear	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 ear	nmod:poss
47	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 holding	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	what day of the month	thing					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past	Hatter						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	turn	gerund	Hatter not said here		Alice				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to alice=Result
4	take	past · perfect	Hatter	Hatter's watch		Hatter's pocket			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location
5	look	past · progressive	Hatter not said here					at thing; uneasily property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
6	shake	gerund	Hatter not said here	watch			now		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	hold	gerund	Hatter not said here	watch				to Hatter's ear	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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