Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 44

There was a general clapping of hands at this: it was the first really clever thing the King had said that day.

Who acts: general clapping, clapping, King · What happens: be, say, clap · To what, where: first clever thing, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (general clapping, clapping, King), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 clapping	det
4	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 clapping	amod
5	clapping	clapping	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 hands	case
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 clapping	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 this	case
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 hands	nmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 thing	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thing	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 thing	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 thing	det
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 thing	amod
15	really	really	ADV	_	16 clever	advmod
16	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thing	amod
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 King	det
19	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 said	aux
21	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 thing	acl:relcl
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 day	det
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obl:unmarked
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	past	a general clapping of hands at this		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	clapping	the first clever thing			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past · perfect	the King	the first clever thing not said here		day	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
4	clap			hands at this			nom clapping «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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