Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 31

So they began solemnly dancing round and round Alice, every now and then treading on her toes when they passed too close, and waving their forepaws to mark the time, while the Mock Turtle sang this, very slowly and sadly:—

Who acts: words, Mock Turtle · What happens: begin, dance, tread, pass, wave, mark · To what, where: Alice, toes, forepaws, this

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 (words, Mock Turtle), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 began	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	_	3 began	advmod
5	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 began	xcomp
6	round	round	ADV	_	5 dancing	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 round	cc
8	round	round	ADV	_	6 round	conj
9	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dancing	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 treading	punct
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 treading	det
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 treading	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 treading	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 treading	advmod
15	treading	tread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 began	advcl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 toes	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 toes	nmod:poss
18	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 treading	obl
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 passed	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 passed	nsubj
21	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 treading	advcl
22	too	too	ADV	_	23 close	advmod
23	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 passed	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 waving	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 waving	cc
26	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 began	advcl
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 forepaws	nmod:poss
28	forepaws	forepaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 waving	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 mark	mark
30	mark	mark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 waving	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 time	det
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 mark	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 sang	punct
34	while	while	SCONJ	_	38 sang	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Turtle	det
36	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Turtle	compound
37	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 sang	nsubj
38	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
39	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 sang	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 slowly	punct
41	very	very	ADV	_	42 slowly	advmod
42	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	38 sang	advmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 sadly	cc
44	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	42 slowly	conj
45	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 sang	punct
46	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	words = word				solemnly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	dance	gerund	words = word not said here	Alice			round property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location alice=Theme
3	tread	gerund	words = word not said here		Alice's toes	now; then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on toe=Trajectory
4	pass	past	words = word				close property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wave	gerund	words = word not said here	words's forepaws				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forepaw=Patient
6	mark	to-infinitive	words = word not said here			time		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	sing speech: express	past	the Mock Turtle	this			slowly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location this=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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