Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 48
The three soldiers wandered about for a minute or two, looking for them, and then quietly marched off after the others.
Who acts: three soldiers · What happens: wander, look, march off
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 (three soldiers), 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 | 3 soldiers | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 soldiers | nummod |
| 3 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wandered | nsubj |
| 4 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 wandered | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 minute | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 minute | det |
| 8 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wandered | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 two | cc |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 minute | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looking | punct |
| 12 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 wandered | advcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 looking | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 marched | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 marched | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 marched | advmod |
| 18 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 19 marched | advmod |
| 19 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wandered | conj |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 marched | compound:prt |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 others | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 others | det |
| 23 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 marched | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | the three soldiers | minute | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | the three soldiers not said here | for soldiers = soldier | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | march off | past | the three soldiers not said here | after the others; then | quietly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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