Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 82

“I’ve so often read in the newspapers, at the end of trials, “There was some attempts at applause, which was immediately suppressed by the officers of the court,” and I never understood what it meant till now.”

Who acts: Alice, attempts, officers, court · What happens: have, read, be, suppress, not understand, mean · To what, where: end, newspapers, attempts · 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, attempts, officers, court), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 ’ve	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 ’ve	nsubj
3	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 read	advmod
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 read	advmod
6	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ’ve	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 newspapers	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 newspapers	det
9	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 read	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 end	punct
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 end	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 end	det
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ’ve	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 trials	case
15	trials	trial	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 end	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 was	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 was	punct
18	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 was	expl
19	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ’ve	parataxis
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 attempts	det
21	attempts	attempt	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 was	nsubj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 applause	case
23	applause	applause	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 attempts	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 suppressed	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 suppressed	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 suppressed	aux:pass
27	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	28 suppressed	advmod
28	suppressed	suppress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 attempts	acl
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 officers	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 officers	det
31	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 suppressed	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 court	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 court	det
34	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 officers	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 officers	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 suppressed	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 understood	cc
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 understood	nsubj
39	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	40 understood	advmod
40	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 suppressed	conj
41	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	43 meant	obj
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 meant	nsubj
43	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 understood	ccomp
44	till	till	ADP	_	45 now	case
45	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 meant	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ’ve	punct
47	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 ’ve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	Alice			at the end of trials		tree rules
2	read in a quote	participle	Alice not said here		the newspapers		often property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be	past	some attempts at applause		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	suppress	past · passive	the officers of the court	some attempts at applause			immediately property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
5	not understand in a quote	past	Alice					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	mean in a quote	past	court					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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