Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 30
He came in with a teacup in one hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other.
Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: come in · To what, where: one hand
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 (Rabbit), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 teacup | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 teacup | det |
| 6 | teacup | teacup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 hand | nummod |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 piece | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 piece | det |
| 12 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hand | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bread | case |
| 14 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 piece | nmod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 butter | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 butter | cc |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 and | punct |
| 18 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bread | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 other | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 other | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 butter | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | Rabbit | one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other | with a teacup | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location |
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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