Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 21
Next came the guests, mostly Kings and Queens, and among them Alice recognised the White Rabbit: it was talking in a hurried nervous manner, smiling at everything that was said, and went by without noticing her.
Who acts: guests, Alice, Rabbit · What happens: come, recognise, talk, hurry, smile, say · To what, where: White Rabbit, hurried nervous manner, everything, Alice · 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 (guests, Alice, Rabbit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg11:552): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 guests | det |
| 4 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Kings | punct |
| 6 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 7 Kings | advmod |
| 7 | Kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 guests | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Queens | cc |
| 9 | Queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Kings | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 recognised | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 recognised | cc |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 recognised | obl |
| 14 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 recognised | nsubj |
| 15 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Rabbit | det |
| 17 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Rabbit | amod |
| 18 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 recognised | obj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 talking | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 talking | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 talking | aux |
| 22 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 recognised | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 manner | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 manner | det |
| 25 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 manner | amod |
| 26 | nervous | nervous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 manner | amod |
| 27 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 talking | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 smiling | punct |
| 29 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 talking | conj |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 everything | case |
| 31 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 29 smiling | obl |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 said | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 said | aux:pass |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 everything | acl:relcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 went | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 went | cc |
| 37 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 talking | conj |
| 38 | by | by | ADV | _ | 37 went | advmod |
| 39 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 40 noticing | mark |
| 40 | noticing | notice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 went | advcl |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 noticing | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the guests | next property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | recognise | past | Alice | the White Rabbit | among guests = guest | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rabbit=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | talk | past · progressive | Rabbit | a hurried nervous manner | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | hurry | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | smile | gerund | Rabbit not said here | everything | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past · passive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | go by | past | Rabbit not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | notice | gerund | Rabbit not said here | Alice | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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