Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 11

‘William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest.

Who acts: pope, English · What happens: favour, submit, want, accustom · To what, where: cause, William, leaders

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 (pope, English), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 William	punct
2	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 submitted	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Conqueror	det
4	Conqueror	Conqueror	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 William	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 favoured	punct
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	7 cause	nmod:poss
7	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 favoured	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 favoured	aux:pass
9	favoured	favour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 Conqueror	acl:relcl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 pope	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pope	det
12	pope	pope	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 favoured	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 William	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 submitted	aux:pass
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 submitted	advmod
16	submitted	submit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	to	to	PART	_	16 submitted	xcomp
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 English	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 English	det
20	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 submitted	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wanted	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 wanted	nsubj
23	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 English	acl:relcl
24	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wanted	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 accustomed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 accustomed	cc
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 accustomed	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 accustomed	aux:pass
29	of	of	SCONJ	_	32 accustomed	mark
30	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 much	advmod
31	much	much	ADV	_	32 accustomed	advmod
32	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 submitted	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 usurpation	case
34	usurpation	usurpation	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 accustomed	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 conquest	cc
36	conquest	conquest	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 usurpation	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 submitted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	favour	past · passive	the pope	cause		tree rules
2	submit	past · passive	the English	William	soon property	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	want	past	the English	leaders		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot leader=Theme
4	accustom	past · perfect · passive	the English not said here		to usurpation and conquest	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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