Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 34
The Hatter looked at the March Hare, who had followed him into the court, arm-in-arm with the Dormouse.
Who acts: Hatter · What happens: look, follow · To what, where: March Hare, court
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 (Hatter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Hatter | det |
| 2 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Hare | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Hare | det |
| 6 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Hare | compound |
| 7 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 followed | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 followed | aux |
| 11 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Hare | acl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 followed | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 court | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 court | det |
| 15 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 followed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 arm | punct |
| 17 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arm | nsubj |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 arm | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 arm | case |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 in | punct |
| 21 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 court | nmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 Dormouse | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Dormouse | det |
| 24 | Dormouse | Dormouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 arm | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the Hatter | at the March Hare | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hare=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | past · perfect · passive | the March Hare | the court in arm with the Dormouse | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme he=Attribute |
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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