Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 36
Alice had been looking over his shoulder with some curiosity.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: look
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 (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 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 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 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 shoulder | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 7 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looking | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 curiosity | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 curiosity | det |
| 10 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looking | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · perfect · progressive | Alice | with some curiosity; over Hatter's shoulder | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over shoulder=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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