Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 2

In the very middle of the court was a table, with a large dish of tarts upon it: they looked so good, that it made Alice quite hungry to look at them—“I wish they’d get the trial done,” she thought, “and hand round the refreshments!”

Who acts: court, King, Alice, trial · What happens: be, look, make, wish, have, get · To what, where: table, middle, Alice, trial · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (court, King, Alice, 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 middle	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 middle	advmod
4	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 table	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 court	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 court	det
7	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 table	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 table	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 table	det
10	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dish	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 dish	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dish	det
14	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dish	amod
15	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 table	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 tarts	case
17	tarts	tart	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 dish	nmod
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 dish	nmod
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 looked	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 looked	nsubj
22	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 table	parataxis
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 good	advmod
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 looked	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 made	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 made	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 made	nsubj
28	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 looked	conj
29	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 made	obj
30	quite	quite	ADV	_	31 hungry	advmod
31	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 made	xcomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 look	mark
33	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 hungry	xcomp
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 look	obl
36	—	-	PUNCT	_	39 wish	punct
37	“	"	PUNCT	_	39 wish	punct
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 wish	nsubj
39	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 thought	ccomp
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 ’d	nsubj
41	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 wish	ccomp
42	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 ’d	ccomp
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 trial	det
44	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 get	obj
45	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 get	xcomp
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 done	punct
47	”	"	PUNCT	_	39 wish	punct
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 thought	nsubj
49	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 table	acl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 hand	punct
51	“	"	PUNCT	_	53 hand	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 hand	cc
53	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 thought	ccomp
54	round	round	ADP	_	56 refreshments	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 refreshments	det
56	refreshments	refreshment	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 hand	nmod
57	!	!	PUNCT	_	53 hand	punct
58	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 table	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the court	a table and a large dish of tarts upon dish	the middle		tree rules
2	look	past	King			good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	make	past	court	Alice		hungry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material alice=Product
4	look	to-infinitive	Alice not said here			at King	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
5	wish in a quote	present	Alice				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	have in a quote	past	King				tree rules
7	get in a quote	infinitive	King not said here	the trial			tree rules
8	do in a quote	participle	the trial not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	think speech: other	past	Alice	a table and a large dish of tarts upon dish not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent table=Attribute clause=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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