Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 104
By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought it back, the fight was over, and both the hedgehogs were out of sight: “but it doesn’t matter much,” thought Alice, “as all the arches are gone from this side of the ground.”
Who acts: fight, hedgehogs, it, Alice, arches · What happens: catch, bring back, be, not matter, think · To what, where: Alice, flamingo, sight, side · 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 (fight, hedgehogs, it, 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caught | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 caught | aux |
| 6 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flamingo | det |
| 8 | flamingo | flamingo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caught | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 brought | cc |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 caught | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brought | obj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 brought | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 over | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fight | det |
| 15 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 over | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 over | cop |
| 17 | over | over | ADV | _ | 6 caught | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sight | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sight | cc |
| 20 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 hedgehogs | det |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hedgehogs | det |
| 22 | hedgehogs | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 sight | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 sight | cop |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 sight | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 sight | case |
| 26 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caught | obl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 sight | punct |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 matter | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 matter | cc |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 matter | nsubj |
| 31 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 matter | aux |
| 32 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 matter | advmod |
| 33 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 thought | ccomp |
| 34 | much | much | ADV | _ | 33 matter | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 matter | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 matter | punct |
| 37 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 caught | advcl |
| 38 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 thought | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 gone | punct |
| 40 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 gone | punct |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 44 arches | case |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 arches | det:predet |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 arches | det |
| 44 | arches | arch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 gone | nsubj |
| 45 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 gone | cop |
| 46 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 thought | conj |
| 47 | from | from | ADP | _ | 49 side | case |
| 48 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 49 side | det |
| 49 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 gone | obl |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 ground | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 ground | det |
| 52 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 side | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 caught | punct |
| 54 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · perfect · passive | Alice | time | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary flamingo=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring back | past | flamingo | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the fight | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | both hedgehogs | sight | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not matter in a quote | present · do-support | it | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | Alice | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | all arches | this side of the ground | go property | 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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