Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 78
Here one of the guinea-pigs cheered, and was immediately suppressed by the officers of the court.
Who acts: one, officers · What happens: cheer, suppress
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 (one, officers), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 cheered | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 pigs | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pigs | det |
| 5 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pigs | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 guinea | punct |
| 7 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cheered | nsubj |
| 8 | cheered | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 suppressed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 suppressed | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 suppressed | aux:pass |
| 12 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 13 suppressed | advmod |
| 13 | suppressed | suppress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 cheered | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 officers | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 officers | det |
| 16 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 suppressed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 court | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 court | det |
| 19 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 officers | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cheered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheer | past | one | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | suppress | past · passive | the officers of the court | immediately property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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