Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 1

They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank—the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable.

Who acts: They, looking party, animals · What happens: look, be, assemble, draggl, cling, drip · To what, where: looking party, bank, animals

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (They, looking party, animals), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 party	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 party	cop
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	8 party	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 party	det
5	queer	queer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looking	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 queer	punct
7	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 party	amod
8	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 assembled	nsubj
10	assembled	assemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 party	acl:relcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 bank	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bank	det
13	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 assembled	obl
14	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 birds	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 birds	det
16	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 party	parataxis
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 feathers	case
18	draggled	draggl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 feathers	amod
19	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 birds	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 animals	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 animals	det
22	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 birds	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 fur	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 fur	nmod:poss
25	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 animals	nmod
26	clinging	cling	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 animals	acl
27	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 clinging	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 clinging	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 uncomfortable	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 uncomfortable	cc
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 uncomfortable	nsubj
33	dripping	drip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 all	acl
34	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 dripping	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 cross	punct
36	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 wet	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 uncomfortable	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 uncomfortable	cc
39	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 birds	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 party	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	gerund						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	past	They	a looking party			indeed property	tree rules
3	assemble	past	a looking party			the bank		vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	draggl	participle						tree rules
5	cling	gerund	the animals with animals's fur not said here		animals = animal		close property	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to they=Co-Theme
6	drip	gerund					wet property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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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