Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 53
The other guests had taken advantage of the Queen’s absence, and were resting in the shade: however, the moment they saw her, they hurried back to the game, the Queen merely remarking that a moment’s delay would cost them their lives.
Who acts: moment, guests, Queen, delay · What happens: take, rest, see, hurry back, remark, cost · To what, where: other guests, shade, Queen, game, guests
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 (moment, guests, Queen, delay), 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 | 3 guests | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 guests | amod |
| 3 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 absence | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Queen | det |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 absence | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Queen | case |
| 11 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 advantage | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 resting | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 resting | cc |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 resting | aux |
| 15 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 taken | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 shade | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shade | det |
| 18 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 resting | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 saw | punct |
| 20 | however | however | ADV | _ | 25 saw | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 however | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 moment | det |
| 23 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 saw | nsubj |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 saw | nsubj |
| 25 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | parataxis |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 saw | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hurried | punct |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 hurried | nsubj |
| 29 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 saw | conj |
| 30 | back | back | ADV | _ | 29 hurried | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 game | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 game | det |
| 33 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hurried | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 remarking | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Queen | det |
| 36 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 remarking | nsubj |
| 37 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 38 remarking | advmod |
| 38 | remarking | remark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 hurried | advcl |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 cost | mark |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 moment | det |
| 41 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 delay | nmod:poss |
| 42 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 41 moment | case |
| 43 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 cost | nsubj |
| 44 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 cost | aux |
| 45 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 remarking | advcl |
| 46 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 cost | obj |
| 47 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 lives | nmod:poss |
| 48 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 cost | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect · passive | the other guests | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme advantage=Destination | |||||
| 2 | rest | past · progressive | the shade | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shade=Location | |||||
| 3 | see | past | the moment | Queen | however property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | hurry back | past | guests = guest | the game | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to game=Destination | ||||
| 5 | remark speech: assert | gerund | the Queen | merely property | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | cost | would | a moment's delay | guests = guest | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme they=Beneficiary life=Value | ||||
| 7 | absent | the Queen | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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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