Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 81

In another minute the whole head appeared, and then Alice put down her flamingo, and began an account of the game, feeling very glad she had someone to listen to her.

Who acts: whole head, Alice · What happens: appear, put down, begin, feel, have, listen · To what, where: flamingo, account, someone, Alice, game

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 (whole head, Alice), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 minute	case
2	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 minute	det
3	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 appeared	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 head	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 head	amod
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 appeared	nsubj
7	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 put	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 put	advmod
11	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 put	nsubj
12	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 appeared	conj
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 put	compound:prt
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 flamingo	nmod:poss
15	flamingo	flamingo	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 began	cc
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 appeared	parataxis
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 account	det
20	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 began	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 game	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 game	det
23	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 account	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 feeling	punct
25	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 began	conj
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 glad	advmod
27	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 feeling	parataxis
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 glad	ccomp
30	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 had	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 listen	mark
32	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 someone	acl
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 listen	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	appear	past	the whole head			minute	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put down	past	Alice	Alice's flamingo		then	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent flamingo=Goal
3	begin	past		a account of the game			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Eventuality
4	feel	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	have	past	Alice	someone			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient
6	listen	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	someone not said here	Alice		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to she=Theme
7	account			the game			nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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