Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 23
On this the White Rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet, and then unrolled the parchment scroll, and read as follows:—
What happens: blow, unroll, read, follow · To what, where: three blasts, trumpet, parchment scroll
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: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 Rabbit | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 Rabbit | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Rabbit | det |
| 4 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Rabbit | amod |
| 5 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 blew | obl |
| 6 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 blasts | nummod |
| 8 | blasts | blast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 blew | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 trumpet | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 trumpet | det |
| 11 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blew | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 unrolled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 unrolled | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 unrolled | advmod |
| 15 | unrolled | unroll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 blew | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 scroll | det |
| 17 | parchment | parchment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 scroll | compound |
| 18 | scroll | scroll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 unrolled | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 read | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 read | cc |
| 21 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 unrolled | advcl |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 follows | mark |
| 23 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 read | ccomp |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 blew | punct |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | three blasts | the trumpet | on the White Rabbit | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent blast=Patient | |||
| 2 | unroll | past | the parchment scroll | then | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent scroll=Patient | ||||
| 3 | read | infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | follow | present | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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