Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 37

However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called out “The race is over!” and they all crowded round it, panting, and asking, “But who has won?”

Who acts: Edwin, race · What happens: run, be, call out, pant, ask, win · To what, where: Dodo · 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 (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	However	however	ADV	_	23 called	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 running	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 running	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 running	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 running	aux
7	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 called	advcl
8	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	10 hour	det:predet
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hour	det
10	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 running	obl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 so	cc
12	so	so	ADV	_	10 hour	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dry	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 dry	cc
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dry	cop
16	quite	quite	ADV	_	17 dry	advmod
17	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 running	conj
18	again	again	ADV	_	17 dry	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 running	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Dodo	det
21	Dodo	Dodo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 running	obj
22	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	23 called	advmod
23	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 called	compound:prt
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 over	punct
26	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 race	det
27	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 over	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 over	cop
29	over	over	ADV	_	23 called	xcomp
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 over	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 called	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 crowded	cc
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 crowded	nsubj
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 crowded	det
35	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 called	conj
36	round	round	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 crowded	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 panting	punct
39	panting	pant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 crowded	advcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 asking	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 asking	cc
42	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 panting	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 won	punct
44	“	"	PUNCT	_	48 won	punct
45	But	but	CCONJ	_	48 won	cc
46	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 won	nsubj
47	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 won	aux
48	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 asking	ccomp
49	?	?	PUNCT	_	48 won	punct
50	”	"	PUNCT	_	48 won	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	run	past · perfect · progressive	Edwin	the Dodo	hour		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dodo=Agent
2	is	past	Edwin not said here		again	dry property	tree rules
3	call out speech: express	participle				however, suddenly property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	the race			over property	tree rules
5	pant	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	ask speech: ask	gerund					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	win in a quote	present · perfect					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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