Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 94

She carried the pepper-box in her hand, and Alice guessed who it was, even before she got into the court, by the way the people near the door began sneezing all at once.

Who acts: Queen, Alice, witness, people · What happens: carry, guess, be, get, begin, sneeze · To what, where: pepper box, hand, court · 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 (Queen, Alice, witness, people), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 box	det
4	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 box	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 pepper	punct
6	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hand	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hand	nmod:poss
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 guessed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 guessed	cc
12	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 guessed	nsubj
13	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	conj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	13 guessed	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 who	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 who	cop
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 got	punct
18	even	even	ADV	_	21 got	advmod
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	21 got	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 got	nsubj
21	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	parataxis
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 court	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 court	det
24	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 got	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 began	punct
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 way	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 way	det
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 began	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 people	det
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 began	nsubj
31	near	near	ADP	_	33 door	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 door	det
33	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 people	nmod
34	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 got	conj
35	sneezing	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 began	xcomp
36	all	all	ADV	_	38 once	advmod
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 once	case
38	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	35 sneezing	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past	Queen	the pepper box	Queen's hand		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent box=Value in hand=Location
2	guess	past	Alice				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	witness				tree rules
4	get	past	Alice		the court		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into court=Destination
5	begin	past	the people near the door			by the way	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	sneeze	gerund	the people near the door not said here			once property	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: 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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