Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 36

There was no “One, two, three, and away,” but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over.

Who acts: One, Edwin, race · What happens: be, begin, run, like, leave off, not be · 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 (One, Edwin, race), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 One	det
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 One	punct
5	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 was	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 two	punct
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 One	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 three	punct
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 One	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 away	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 away	cc
12	away	away	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 away	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 away	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 began	nsubj
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	conj
18	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 began	xcomp
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 liked	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 liked	nsubj
21	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 running	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 left	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 left	cc
24	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 began	conj
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 left	compound:prt
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 liked	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 liked	nsubj
28	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 left	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 easy	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	35 easy	advmod
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 easy	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 easy	expl
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 easy	cop
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 easy	advmod
35	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 left	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 know	mark
37	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 easy	csubj
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	42 over	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 race	det
40	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 over	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 over	cop
42	over	over	ADV	_	37 know	ccomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	no One	there	away property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	Edwin			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	run	gerund	Edwin not said here			tree rules
4	like	past	Edwin			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	leave off	participle	Edwin not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	like	past	Edwin			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	not is	past	Edwin not said here		easy property	tree rules
8	know	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	is	past	the race		over property	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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