Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 142

“Chorus again!” cried the Gryphon, and the Mock Turtle had just begun to repeat it, when a cry of “The trial’s beginning!” was heard in the distance.

Who acts: Chorus, Mock Turtle, beginning, trial · What happens: cry, begin, repeat, hear · To what, where: Chorus, cry

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 (Chorus, Mock Turtle, beginning, trial), 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 Chorus	punct
2	Chorus	chorus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
3	again	again	ADV	_	2 Chorus	advmod
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Chorus	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Chorus	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Gryphon	det
8	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 begun	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 begun	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Turtle	det
12	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Turtle	compound
13	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 begun	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 begun	aux
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 begun	advmod
16	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 cried	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 repeat	mark
18	repeat	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 begun	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 repeat	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 heard	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 heard	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 cry	det
23	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heard	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	29 beginning	case
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 beginning	punct
26	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 trial	det
27	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 beginning	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 trial	case
29	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cry	nmod
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 cry	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 cry	punct
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 heard	aux:pass
33	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cried	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 distance	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 distance	det
36	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heard	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Chorus			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past · perfect	the Mock Turtle			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	repeat	to-infinitive	the Mock Turtle not said here	Chorus		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	hear	past · passive		a cry of the trial's beginning	in the distance	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
5	cry		the trial's beginning			nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent
6	begin in a quote		the trial			nom beginning «event 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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