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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 27

“In that case,” said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, “I move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more energetic remedies—”

Who acts: Dodo, meeting · What happens: say, rise, move, adjourn, adopt · To what, where: case, feet, energetic remedies · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Dodo, meeting), 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

punctcasedetoblpunctpunctdetnsubjadvmodpunctadvclcasenmod:possoblpunctpunctnsubjconjmarkdetnsubjccomppunctcasedetamodoblcaseadvmodamodnmodpunctpunctroot“PUNCTInADPthatDETcaseNOUN,PUNCT”PUNCTsaidVERBtheDETDodoPROPNsolemnlyADV,PUNCTrisingVERBtoADPitsPRONfeetNOUN,PUNCT“PUNCTIPRONmoveVERBthatSCONJtheDETmeetingNOUNadjournVERB,PUNCTforADPtheDETimmediateADJadoptionNOUNofADPmoreADVenergeticADJremediesNOUN—PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_7 saidpunct
2IninADP_4 casecase
3thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem4 casedet
4casecaseNOUNNumber=Sing7 saidobl
5,,PUNCT_4 casepunct
6”"PUNCT_4 casepunct
7saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 Dododet
9DodoDodoPROPNNumber=Sing7 saidnsubj
10solemnlysolemnlyADV_7 saidadvmod
11,,PUNCT_12 risingpunct
12risingriseVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part7 saidadvcl
13totoADP_15 feetcase
14itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 feetnmod:poss
15feetfootNOUNNumber=Plur12 risingobl
16,,PUNCT_19 movepunct
17“"PUNCT_19 movepunct
18IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs19 movensubj
19movemoveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 saidconj
20thatthatSCONJ_23 adjournmark
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 meetingdet
22meetingmeetingNOUNNumber=Sing23 adjournnsubj
23adjournadjournVERBVerbForm=Inf19 moveccomp
24,,PUNCT_28 adoptionpunct
25forforADP_28 adoptioncase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 adoptiondet
27immediateimmediateADJDegree=Pos28 adoptionamod
28adoptionadoptionNOUNNumber=Sing23 adjournobl
29ofofADP_32 remediescase
30moremoreADVDegree=Cmp31 energeticadvmod
31energeticenergeticADJDegree=Pos32 remediesamod
32remediesremedyNOUNNumber=Plur28 adoptionnmod
33—-PUNCT_7 saidpunct
34”"PUNCT_7 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastthe Dodothat casesolemnly propertyvn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in case=Manner
2risegerundthe Dodo not said hereDodo's feetvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location
3move in a quotepresentthe Dodo = dodotree rules
4adjourn in a quoteinfinitivethe meetingfor the immediate adoption of energetic remediestree rules
5adopt in a quoteenergetic remediesnom adoption «act 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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