Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 55

I gave her one, they gave him two, You gave us three or more; They all returned from him to you, Though they were mine before.

Who acts: I, verses, You · What happens: give, return, be · To what, where: one, trial, two, Rabbit, three, us

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 (I, verses, You), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 gave	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gave	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gave	nsubj
7	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gave	iobj
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 gave	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct
11	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 gave	nsubj
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 gave	iobj
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 gave	obj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 more	cc
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 three	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 returned	punct
18	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 returned	nsubj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 They	det
20	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	parataxis
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 returned	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 you	case
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 returned	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 mine	punct
26	Though	though	SCONJ	_	29 mine	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 mine	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 mine	cop
29	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 returned	conj
30	before	before	ADV	_	29 mine	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	I	one	trial		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient one=Theme
2	give	past	verses = verse	two	Rabbit		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient two=Theme
3	give	past	You	three	us		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient three=Theme
4	return	past	verses = verse		you	from Rabbit	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from he=Initial_State to you=Result
5	is a	past	verses = verse	mine		before property	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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