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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 20

This of course, Alice could _not_ stand, and she went round the court and got behind him, and very soon found an opportunity of taking it away.

Who acts: course, Alice, opportunity · What happens: not stand, go, get, find, take away · To what, where: court, opportunity

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 (course, Alice, opportunity), 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

detcasensubjpunctnsubjauxpunctadvmodpunctpunctccnsubjparataxiscasedetoblccconjcaseoblpunctccadvmodadvmodconjdetobjmarkaclobjadvmodpunctrootThisDETofADPcourseNOUN,PUNCTAlicePROPNcouldAUX_PUNCTnotPART_PUNCTstandVERB,PUNCTandCCONJshePRONwentVERBroundADPtheDETcourtNOUNandCCONJgotVERBbehindADPhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJveryADVsoonADVfoundVERBanDETopportunityNOUNofSCONJtakingVERBitPRONawayADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem3 coursedet
2ofofADP_3 coursecase
3coursecourseNOUNNumber=Sing10 standnsubj
4,,PUNCT_3 coursepunct
5AliceAlicePROPNNumber=Sing10 standnsubj
6couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin10 standaux
7__PUNCT_10 standpunct
8notnotPARTPolarity=Neg10 standadvmod
9__PUNCT_10 standpunct
10standstandVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
11,,PUNCT_14 wentpunct
12andandCCONJ_14 wentcc
13sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 wentnsubj
14wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 standparataxis
15roundroundADP_17 courtcase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 courtdet
17courtcourtNOUNNumber=Sing14 wentobl
18andandCCONJ_19 gotcc
19gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 wentconj
20behindbehindADP_21 himcase
21himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 gotobl
22,,PUNCT_26 foundpunct
23andandCCONJ_26 foundcc
24veryveryADV_25 soonadvmod
25soonsoonADVDegree=Pos26 foundadvmod
26foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 wentconj
27anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 opportunitydet
28opportunityopportunityNOUNNumber=Sing26 foundobj
29ofofSCONJ_30 takingmark
30takingtakeVERBVerbForm=Ger28 opportunityacl
31ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 takingobj
32awayawayADV_30 takingadvmod
33..PUNCT_10 standpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not standcouldthis coursevn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2gopastAlicethe courtvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round court=Initial_Location
3getpastAlice not said herebehind coursevn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4findpastAlice not said herea opportunitysoon propertyvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Topic
5take awaygerunda opportunity not said hereopportunityaway propertyvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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