Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 79
Alice waited till the eyes appeared, and then nodded.
Who acts: Alice, eyes · What happens: wait, appear, nod
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, eyes), 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 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 appeared | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 eyes | det |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 appeared | nsubj |
| 6 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 nodded | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 nodded | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 nodded | advmod |
| 10 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | Alice | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | appear | past | the eyes | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | nod | past | Alice not said here | then | vn wink-40.3.1 «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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