Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 117

[later editions continued as follows The Panther took pie-crust, and gravy, and meat, While the Owl had the dish as its share of the treat.

Who acts: editions, Owl, Panther · What happens: continue, follow, take, have, share · To what, where: editions, pie crust, dish, treat

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: who acts (editions, Owl, Panther), 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	_	3 editions	punct
2	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 editions	advmod
3	editions	edition	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 took	nsubj
4	continued	continue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 editions	acl
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 follows	mark
6	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 continued	advcl
7	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Panther	det
8	Panther	Panther	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crust	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 pie	punct
12	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gravy	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gravy	cc
15	gravy	gravy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 meat	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 meat	cc
18	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
20	While	while	SCONJ	_	23 had	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Owl	det
22	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dish	det
25	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 share	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 share	nmod:poss
28	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 treat	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 treat	det
31	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 share	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	continue	participle		editions not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	follow	present				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	past	editions	pie crust	gravy obl; meat obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crust=Theme
4	have	past	the Owl	the dish	as Panther's share of the treat	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient
5	share		Panther	the treat		nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent 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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