Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 2

Alice was very glad to find her in such a pleasant temper, and thought to herself that perhaps it was only the pepper that had made her so savage when they met in the kitchen.

Who acts: Alice, temper, pepper, they · What happens: be, find, think, make, meet · To what, where: Alice, pleasant temper, pepper, kitchen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, temper, pepper, they), 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	4 glad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 glad	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 glad	advmod
4	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 find	mark
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 glad	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 find	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 temper	case
9	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 temper	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 temper	det
11	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 temper	amod
12	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 thought	cc
15	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 glad	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 herself	case
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 thought	obl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 pepper	mark
19	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	24 pepper	advmod
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pepper	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 pepper	cop
22	only	only	ADV	_	24 pepper	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pepper	det
24	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thought	ccomp
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 made	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 made	aux
27	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 pepper	acl:relcl
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 made	obj
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 savage	advmod
30	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 made	xcomp
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 met	advmod
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 met	nsubj
33	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 made	advcl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 kitchen	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 kitchen	det
36	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 met	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Alice				glad property	tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	Alice		such pleasant temper		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
3	think speech: other	participle	Alice not said here		Alice			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	temper	the pepper			perhaps property	tree rules
5	make	past · perfect	the pepper	Alice			savage property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product
6	meet	past	they			the kitchen		vn meet-36.3-1 «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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