Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 10

“Seals, turtles, salmon, and so on; then, when you’ve cleared all the jelly-fish out of the way—”

What happens: clear · To what, where: Seals, way

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Seals	punct
2	Seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cleared	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turtles	punct
4	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Seals	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 salmon	punct
6	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Seals	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 on	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 on	cc
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 on	advmod
10	on	on	ADV	_	2 Seals	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 Seals	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Seals	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ’ve	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 ’ve	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 ’ve	nsubj
16	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 cleared	aux:pass
17	cleared	clear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 fish	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fish	det
20	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fish	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 jelly	punct
22	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cleared	obj
23	out	out	ADP	_	26 way	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 way	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 way	det
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cleared	obl
27	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 cleared	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 cleared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clear in a quote	present · passive		Seals and turtles and salmon		the way			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary fish=Product

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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