Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 77

She was looking about for some way of escape, and wondering whether she could get away without being seen, when she noticed a curious appearance in the air: it puzzled her very much at first, but, after watching it a minute or two, she made it out to be a grin, and she said to herself “It’s the Cheshire Cat: now I shall have somebody to talk to.”

Who acts: wonder, appearance · What happens: look, wonder, get away, see, notice, puzzle · To what, where: curious appearance, air, wonder, appearance, grin, Cheshire Cat · 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 (wonder, appearance), 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 looking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looking	aux
3	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	3 looking	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 way	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looking	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 escape	case
9	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 way	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wondering	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wondering	cc
12	wondering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 looking	conj
13	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	16 get	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 get	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 get	aux
16	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wondering	ccomp
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 get	advmod
18	without	without	SCONJ	_	20 seen	mark
19	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 seen	aux:pass
20	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 get	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 noticed	punct
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 noticed	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 noticed	nsubj
24	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looking	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 appearance	det
26	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 appearance	amod
27	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 noticed	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 air	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 air	det
30	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 appearance	nmod
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 puzzled	punct
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 puzzled	nsubj
33	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 noticed	parataxis
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 puzzled	obj
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 much	advmod
36	much	much	ADV	_	33 puzzled	advmod
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 first	case
38	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	36 much	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 made	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	51 made	cc
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 but	punct
42	after	after	SCONJ	_	43 watching	mark
43	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	51 made	advcl
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 watching	obj
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 minute	det
46	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 watching	obj
47	or	or	CCONJ	_	48 two	cc
48	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 minute	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 watching	punct
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 made	nsubj
51	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 puzzled	conj
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 made	obj
53	out	out	ADP	_	51 made	compound:prt
54	to	to	PART	_	57 grin	mark
55	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	57 grin	cop
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 grin	det
57	grin	grin	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 made	advcl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 said	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 said	cc
60	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 said	nsubj
61	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 puzzled	conj
62	to	to	ADP	_	63 herself	case
63	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	61 said	obl
64	“	"	PUNCT	_	69 Cat	punct
65	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 Cat	nsubj
66	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	69 Cat	cop
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 Cat	det
68	Cheshire	Cheshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	69 Cat	compound
69	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 said	ccomp
70	:	:	PUNCT	_	74 have	punct
71	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	74 have	advmod
72	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	74 have	nsubj
73	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	74 have	aux
74	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	69 Cat	conj
75	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	74 have	obj
76	to	to	PART	_	77 talk	mark
77	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	75 somebody	acl
78	to	to	ADP	_	77 talk	obl
79	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looking	punct
80	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 looking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · progressive	wonder					for some way of escape; about property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for way=Theme
2	wonder speech: ask	gerund	wonder not said here						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	get away	could	wonder					away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see	gerund · passive	wonder not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
5	notice	past	wonder	a curious appearance		the air			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer appearance=Stimulus
6	puzzle	past	appearance	wonder					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
7	watch	gerund	wonder not said here	appearance			minute		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	make out	past	wonder	appearance					vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
9	is a	to-infinitive	wonder not said here	a grin					tree rules
10	say speech: assert	past	wonder		wonder				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient
11	is a in a quote	present	appearance	the Cheshire Cat					tree rules
12	have in a quote	shall	wonder	somebody			now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent somebody=Patient
13	talk in a quote	to-infinitive	wonder not said here	somebody not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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