Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 100

Alice thought she might as well go back, and see how the game was going on, as she heard the Queen’s voice in the distance, screaming with passion.

Who acts: Alice, game · What happens: think, go back, see, go on, hear, scream · To what, where: voice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, game), 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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 go	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
5	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	7 go	cc
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 as	fixed
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 see	cc
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	conj
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 going	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 game	det
14	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 going	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 going	aux
16	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 see	ccomp
17	on	on	ADP	_	16 going	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 heard	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 heard	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heard	nsubj
21	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Queen	det
23	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 voice	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 Queen	case
25	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heard	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 distance	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 distance	det
28	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heard	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 screaming	punct
30	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 heard	advcl
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 passion	case
32	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 screaming	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Alice			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	go back	might	Alice			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	see	infinitive	Alice not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	go on	past · progressive	the game			vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hear	past	Alice	the Queen's voice	in the distance	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
6	scream speech: express	gerund	Alice not said here		with passion	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with passion=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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