Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 53
The soldiers were silent, and looked at Alice, as the question was evidently meant for her.
Who acts: soldiers · What happens: be, look, mean · To what, where: question
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 (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 | 2 soldiers | det |
| 2 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 silent | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 silent | cop |
| 4 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 looked | cc |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 silent | parataxis |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Alice | case |
| 9 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 meant | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 meant | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 question | det |
| 13 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 meant | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 meant | aux:pass |
| 15 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 16 meant | advmod |
| 16 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 looked | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 meant | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 silent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the soldiers | silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | past | at Alice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at alice=Theme | |||||
| 3 | mean | past · passive | the question | for Alice; evidently property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for she=Attribute |
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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