Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 75

The miserable Hatter dropped his teacup and bread-and-butter, and went down on one knee.

Who acts: miserable Hatter, bread · What happens: drop, butter, go down · To what, where: teacup, one knee

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 (miserable Hatter, bread), 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	3 Hatter	det
2	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Hatter	amod
3	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	nsubj
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 teacup	nmod:poss
6	teacup	teacup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 butter	cc
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 butter	nsubj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 butter	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 butter	cc
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 and	punct
12	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 teacup	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dropped	conj
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 knee	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 knee	nummod
19	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drop	past	the miserable Hatter	Hatter's teacup and butter			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacup=Theme
2	butter		bread				tree rules
3	go down	past	the miserable Hatter not said here		one knee	down property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=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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