Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 18
There was a sound of many footsteps, and Alice looked round, eager to see the Queen.
Who acts: sound, Alice · What happens: be, look, see · To what, where: Queen
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 (sound, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sound | det |
| 4 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 footsteps | case |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 footsteps | amod |
| 7 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sound | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 10 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 12 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 looked | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 eager | punct |
| 14 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 round | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 eager | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Queen | det |
| 18 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a sound of many footsteps | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Alice | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | the Queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus |
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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