Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 4

Alice had never been in a court of justice before, but she had read about them in books, and she was quite pleased to find that she knew the name of nearly everything there.

Who acts: Alice · What happens: have, not be, read, be, find, know · To what, where: court, books, name, everything · 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 (Alice), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 court	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 court	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 court	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 court	det
7	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 justice	case
9	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 court	nmod
10	before	before	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 read	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 read	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 read	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 read	aux
15	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 had	parataxis
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 read	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 books	case
19	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 read	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pleased	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pleased	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pleased	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 pleased	cop
24	quite	quite	ADV	_	25 pleased	advmod
25	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 read	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 find	mark
27	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 pleased	advcl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 knew	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 knew	nsubj
30	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 find	ccomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 name	det
32	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 knew	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 everything	case
34	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	35 everything	advmod
35	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	32 name	nmod
36	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 knew	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Alice			before property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is	participle			a court	of justice	tree rules
3	read	past · perfect	Alice		books	about King	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about they=Topic
4	is	past	Alice			pleased property	tree rules
5	find	to-infinitive	Alice not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	know	past	Alice	the name of everything	there		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
7	name			everything			nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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