Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 57
She was walking by the White Rabbit, who was peeping anxiously into her face.
Who acts: Alice, White Rabbit · What happens: walk, peep
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, White Rabbit), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walking | aux |
| 3 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Rabbit | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Rabbit | det |
| 6 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Rabbit | amod |
| 7 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 walking | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 peeping | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 peeping | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 peeping | aux |
| 11 | peeping | peep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 Rabbit | acl |
| 12 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 11 peeping | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 face | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 face | nmod:poss |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 peeping | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | Alice | by the White Rabbit | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by rabbit=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | peep | past · progressive | the White Rabbit | into Alice's face; anxiously property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=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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