Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 55

Those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave off being arches to do this, so that by the end of half an hour or so there were no arches left, and all the players, except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and under sentence of execution.

Who acts: Queen, soldiers, players · What happens: sentence, take, have, leave off, be, do · To what, where: Those, custody, arches, this, execution

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 (Queen, soldiers, players), 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	Those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 taken	nsubj:pass
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 sentenced	obj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sentenced	nsubj
4	sentenced	sentence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Those	acl:relcl
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 taken	aux:pass
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 custody	case
8	custody	custody	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 soldiers	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 soldiers	det
11	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 taken	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 had	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	16 had	advmod
15	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 of	fixed
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 soldiers	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 leave	mark
18	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	xcomp
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 leave	compound:prt
20	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 arches	cop
21	arches	arch	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 leave	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 do	mark
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 leave	advcl
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 do	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 end	punct
26	so	so	SCONJ	_	30 end	case
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 so	fixed
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 end	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 end	det
30	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 do	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 hour	case
32	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	34 hour	det:predet
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 hour	det
34	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 end	nmod
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 arches	cc
36	so	so	ADV	_	38 were	advmod
37	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	38 were	expl
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 arches	cop
39	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	40 arches	det
40	arches	arch	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 end	conj
41	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 arches	acl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 custody	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 custody	cc
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 players	det:predet
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 players	det
46	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 custody	nsubj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 King	punct
48	except	except	ADP	_	50 King	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 King	det
50	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 players	appos
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 Queen	punct
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 Queen	det
53	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 King	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 Alice	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 Alice	cc
56	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 King	conj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 players	punct
58	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 custody	cop
59	in	in	ADP	_	60 custody	case
60	custody	custody	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	parataxis
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 sentence	cc
62	under	under	ADP	_	63 sentence	case
63	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 custody	conj
64	of	of	ADP	_	65 execution	case
65	execution	execution	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 sentence	nmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sentence	past	Queen				tree rules
2	take	past · passive	the soldiers	Those	custody		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme into custody=Destination
3	have	past	the soldiers				tree rules
4	leave off	to-infinitive	the soldiers not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	gerund		arches			tree rules
6	do	to-infinitive	the soldiers not said here	this		so the end of half hour or no arches	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
7	is a	past	the soldiers not said here	no arches			tree rules
8	leave	participle		no arches not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	is	past	all players		custody and sentence of execution		tree rules
10	sentence			execution			nom sentence «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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