Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 118

When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon, Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon: While the Panther received knife and fork with a growl, And concluded the banquet—]

Who acts: Was, Panther · What happens: finish, permit, receive, conclude · To what, where: pie, pocket, knife, banquet

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 (Was, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 finished	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pie	det
3	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 finished	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 finished	aux:pass
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 finished	advmod
6	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Owl	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Owl	det
9	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 finished	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 boon	punct
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 boon	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 boon	det
13	boon	boon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 finished	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 permitted	punct
15	Was	Be	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 permitted	nsubj
16	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	17 permitted	advmod
17	permitted	permit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 boon	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 pocket	mark
19	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 permitted	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 spoon	det
21	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 permitted	obj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 received	punct
23	While	while	SCONJ	_	26 received	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Panther	det
25	Panther	Panther	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 received	nsubj
26	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 finished	parataxis
27	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 received	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fork	cc
29	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 knife	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 growl	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 growl	det
32	growl	growl	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 knife	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 concluded	punct
34	And	and	CCONJ	_	35 concluded	cc
35	concluded	conclude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 received	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 banquet	det
37	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 concluded	obj
38	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 finished	punct
39	]	]	PUNCT	_	6 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	finish	past · passive		the pie	as a boon; the Owl obl; all property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
2	permit	participle	Was	pocket	kindly property	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme
3	receive	past	the Panther	knife and fork	with a growl	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
4	conclude	past	the Panther not said here	the banquet		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banquet=Theme

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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