Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 19

One of the jurors had a pencil that squeaked.

Who acts: One, pencil · What happens: have, squeak · To what, where: pencil

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 (One, pencil), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 had	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 jurors	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 jurors	det
4	jurors	juror	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pencil	det
7	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 squeaked	nsubj
9	squeaked	squeak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pencil	acl:relcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	One	a pencil					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=Patient
2	squeak	past	a pencil						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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