Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 82

The Cat seemed to think that there was enough of it now in sight, and no more of it appeared.

Who acts: Cat, more · What happens: seem, think, be, appear · To what, where: sight · 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 (Cat, more), 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 Cat	det
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seemed	nsubj
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 think	mark
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seemed	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 enough	mark
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 enough	cop
9	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 think	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 enough	nmod
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 sight	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 sight	case
14	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 appeared	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 appeared	cc
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 more	det
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 appeared	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 more	nmod
21	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seemed	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the Cat			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the Cat not said here	sight		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past			of account; enough property	tree rules
4	appear	past	no more of account			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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