Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 18
‘Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him: and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable—’”
Who acts: Edwin · What happens: declare, find · To what, where: Stigand, archbishop
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 (Edwin), 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 Edwin | punct |
| 2 | Edwin | Edwin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 declared | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Morcar | cc |
| 4 | Morcar | Morcar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Edwin | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 earls | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 earls | det |
| 7 | earls | earl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Edwin | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Mercia | case |
| 9 | Mercia | Mercia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 earls | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Northumbria | cc |
| 11 | Northumbria | Northumbria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Mercia | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Edwin | punct |
| 13 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 declared | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 Stigand | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Stigand | cc |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 Stigand | advmod |
| 19 | Stigand | Stigand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 declared | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 archbishop | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 archbishop | det |
| 22 | patriotic | patriotic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 archbishop | amod |
| 23 | archbishop | archbishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Stigand | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Canterbury | case |
| 25 | Canterbury | Canterbury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 archbishop | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 found | punct |
| 27 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 declared | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 found | obj |
| 29 | advisable | advisable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 found | xcomp |
| 30 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 ’ | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | SYM | _ | 13 declared | obl |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 ’ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | Edwin and Morcar | Stigand | for Northumbria | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | find | past | Edwin and Morcar not said here | archbishop | advisable property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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