Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 103

The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog, which seemed to Alice an excellent opportunity for croqueting one of them with the other: the only difficulty was, that her flamingo was gone across to the other side of the garden, where Alice could see it trying in a helpless sort of way to fly up into a tree.

Who acts: hedgehog, excellent opportunity, Alice, flamingo · What happens: engage, seem, croquet, be, see, try · To what, where: hedgehog, fight, excellent opportunity, Alice, one, only difficulty

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 (hedgehog, excellent opportunity, Alice, flamingo), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hedgehog	det
2	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 engaged	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 engaged	aux:pass
4	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 fight	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fight	det
7	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 engaged	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 hedgehog	case
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 hedgehog	det
10	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fight	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seemed	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 seemed	nsubj
13	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hedgehog	acl:relcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Alice	case
15	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 seemed	obl
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 opportunity	det
17	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 opportunity	amod
18	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seemed	obj
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 croqueting	mark
20	croqueting	croquet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 opportunity	acl
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 croqueting	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 one	nmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 other	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 other	det
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 croqueting	obl
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 gone	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 difficulty	det
29	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 difficulty	amod
30	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gone	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 gone	cop
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 gone	punct
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 gone	mark
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 flamingo	nmod:poss
35	flamingo	flamingo	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gone	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 gone	aux:pass
37	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 engaged	parataxis
38	across	across	ADP	_	42 side	case
39	to	to	ADP	_	42 side	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 side	det
41	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 side	amod
42	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gone	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 garden	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 garden	det
45	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 side	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 see	punct
47	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	50 see	advmod
48	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 see	nsubj
49	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 see	aux
50	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 gone	conj
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 see	obj
52	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 see	xcomp
53	in	in	ADP	_	56 sort	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 sort	det
55	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 sort	amod
56	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 trying	obl
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 way	case
58	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 sort	nmod
59	to	to	PART	_	60 fly	mark
60	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 trying	advcl
61	up	up	ADP	_	60 fly	compound:prt
62	into	into	ADP	_	64 tree	case
63	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	64 tree	det
64	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 fly	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 engaged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	engage	past · passive		the hedgehog			in a fight with another hedgehog goal	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme in fight=Goal
2	seem	past	another hedgehog	a excellent opportunity	Alice			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme opportunity=Attribute
3	croquet	gerund	a excellent opportunity not said here	one of hedgehogs			with the other	tree rules
4	is	past · passive		the only difficulty		the other side of the garden	go property	tree rules
5	see	could	Alice	flamingo				tree rules
6	try	gerund	flamingo not said here			a helpless sort of way		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	fly up	to-infinitive	flamingo not said here				into a tree result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into tree=Result
8	sort			way				nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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