Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 93

The next witness was the Duchess’s cook.

Who acts: next witness · What happens: be · To what, where: cook

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 (next witness), 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 witness	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 witness	amod
3	witness	witness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cook	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cook	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Duchess	det
6	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cook	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Duchess	case
8	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the next witness	the Duchess's cook					tree rules

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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