Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 107

For some minutes the whole court was in confusion, getting the Dormouse turned out, and, by the time they had settled down again, the cook had disappeared.

Who acts: whole court · What happens: be, get, turn out, settle down, disappear · To what, where: confusion, whiskers, cook

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole court), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 minutes	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 minutes	det
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 confusion	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 court	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 court	amod
6	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 confusion	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 confusion	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 confusion	case
9	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 turned	punct
11	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 turned	nsubj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Dormouse	det
13	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 turned	nsubj
14	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 confusion	parataxis
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 turned	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 settled	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 settled	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 settled	punct
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 time	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 time	det
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 settled	obl
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 settled	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 settled	aux
24	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 turned	conj
25	down	down	ADP	_	24 settled	compound:prt
26	again	again	ADV	_	24 settled	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 disappeared	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cook	det
29	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 disappeared	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 disappeared	aux
31	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 settled	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 confusion	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is	past	the whole court		confusion	minute	tree rules
2	get	gerund					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	turn out	past					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	settle down	past · perfect · passive		whiskers = whisker		again; time	tree rules
5	disappear	past · perfect · passive		the cook			tree rules

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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