Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 52

“They have their tails in their mouths—and they’re all over crumbs.”

Who acts: England · What happens: have, be · To what, where: tails, mouths, crumbs

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 (England), 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 have	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tails	nmod:poss
5	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 mouths	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mouths	nmod:poss
8	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obl
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	12 ’re	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ’re	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ’re	nsubj
12	’re	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
13	all	all	ADV	_	15 crumbs	advmod
14	over	over	ADP	_	15 crumbs	case
15	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ’re	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	England	England's tails		England's mouths			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
2	be in a quote	present	England	crumbs					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot crumb=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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