Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 105
So she tucked it away under her arm, that it might not escape again, and went back for a little more conversation with her friend.
Who acts: Alice, fight · What happens: tuck away, not escape, go back · To what, where: fight, arm
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, fight), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 tucked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tucked | nsubj |
| 3 | tucked | tuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tucked | obj |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 tucked | advmod |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 arm | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 arm | nmod:poss |
| 8 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tucked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 escape | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 escape | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 escape | nsubj |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 escape | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 escape | advmod |
| 14 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tucked | conj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 escape | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tucked | conj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 conversation | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 conversation | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 conversation | amod |
| 23 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 conversation | amod |
| 24 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 friend | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 friend | nmod:poss |
| 27 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 conversation | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tucked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tuck away | past | Alice | fight | Alice's arm | away property | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme under arm=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | not escape | might | fight | again | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go back | past | Alice not said here | for a little more conversation with Alice's friend | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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