Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 80

They had a large canvas bag, which tied up at the mouth with strings: into this they slipped the guinea-pig, head first, and then sat upon it.)

Who acts: pigs, large canvas bag · What happens: have, tie up, slip, sit · To what, where: large canvas bag, mouth, guinea pig, this, head

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 (pigs, large canvas bag), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bag	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bag	amod
5	canvas	canvas	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bag	compound
6	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tied	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 tied	nsubj
9	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bag	acl:relcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 tied	compound:prt
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 mouth	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mouth	det
13	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tied	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 strings	case
15	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tied	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 slipped	punct
17	into	into	ADP	_	18 this	case
18	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 slipped	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 slipped	nsubj
20	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pig	det
22	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pig	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 guinea	punct
24	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 slipped	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 head	punct
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pig	appos
27	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 slipped	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sat	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sat	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 sat	advmod
31	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 slipped	conj
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sat	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
35	)	)	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	pigs = pig	a large canvas bag				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient
2	tie up	past	a large canvas bag		the mouth		with strings	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with string=Co-Patient
3	slip	past	pigs = pig	the guinea pig	this		first property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent pig=Patient
4	sit	past	pigs = pig not said here		head	then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon it=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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