Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 47

This did not seem to encourage the witness at all: he kept shifting from one foot to the other, looking uneasily at the Queen, and in his confusion he bit a large piece out of his teacup instead of the bread-and-butter.

Who acts: This, Hatter · What happens: not seem, encourage, keep, shift, look, bite · To what, where: witness, all, one foot, large piece, confusion

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 (This, 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 seem	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seem	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 seem	advmod
4	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 encourage	mark
6	encourage	encourage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seem	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 witness	det
8	witness	witness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 encourage	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 encourage	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 kept	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kept	nsubj
13	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seem	conj
14	shifting	shift	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 kept	xcomp
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 foot	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 foot	nummod
17	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shifting	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 other	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 other	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 shifting	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 looking	punct
22	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 shifting	conj
23	uneasily	uneasily	ADV	_	22 looking	advmod
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 Queen	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Queen	det
26	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 looking	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bit	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 bit	cc
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 confusion	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 confusion	nmod:poss
31	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bit	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 bit	nsubj
33	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 kept	parataxis
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 piece	det
35	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 piece	amod
36	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bit	obj
37	out	out	ADP	_	40 teacup	case
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 teacup	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 teacup	nmod:poss
40	teacup	teacup	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bit	obl
41	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	48 butter	case
42	of	of	ADP	_	41 instead	fixed
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 butter	det
44	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 butter	nsubj
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 butter	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 butter	cc
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 and	punct
48	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bit	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not seem	past · do-support	This				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	encourage	to-infinitive	This not said here	the witness	all		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Theme
3	keep	past	Hatter				tree rules
4	shift	gerund	Hatter not said here		one foot	to the other result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from foot=Initial_State to other=Result
5	look	gerund	Hatter not said here			at the Queen; uneasily property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at queen=Theme
6	bite	past	Hatter	a large piece	Hatter's confusion	out Hatter's teacup; instead the butter	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent piece=Patient in confusion=Location
7	confuse		Hatter				nom confusion «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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