Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 87
“Come, that finished the guinea-pigs!” thought Alice.
Who acts: that, Alice · What happens: come, finish, think · To what, where: guinea pigs · 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 (that, Alice), 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 | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 finished | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 finished | nsubj |
| 5 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Come | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pigs | det |
| 7 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pigs | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 guinea | punct |
| 9 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 finished | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | finish in a quote | past | that | the guinea pigs | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality pig=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Alice | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
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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