Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 35

First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, (“the exact shape doesn’t matter,” it said,) and then all the party were placed along the course, here and there.

Who acts: thing, exact shape · What happens: mark out, not matter, say, place, sort · To what, where: race course, party, course, circle · 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 (thing, exact shape), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 marked	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 marked	nsubj
3	marked	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 said	advcl
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 marked	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 course	det
6	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 course	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 race	punct
8	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 marked	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sort	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 sort	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sort	det
12	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 marked	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 circle	case
14	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sort	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 matter	punct
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 matter	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 matter	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shape	det
19	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 shape	amod
20	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 matter	nsubj
21	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 matter	aux
22	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 matter	advmod
23	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 marked	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 matter	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 marked	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
29	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 placed	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 all	advmod
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 party	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 party	det
34	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 placed	nsubj:pass
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 placed	aux:pass
36	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 said	conj
37	along	along	ADP	_	39 course	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 course	det
39	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 placed	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 here	punct
41	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 placed	advmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 there	cc
43	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 here	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mark out	past	thing	a race course		first property	tree rules
2	not matter in a quote	present · do-support	the exact shape				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	thing				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	place	past · passive		all party	the course; here		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme along course=Destination
5	sort			circle			nom sort «cognition 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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