Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 41

“Why, _she_, of course,” said the Dodo, pointing to Alice with one finger; and the whole party at once crowded round her, calling out in a confused way, “Prizes!

Who acts: Dodo, whole party · What happens: say, point, call out · To what, where: Alice, confused way · 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, whole party), 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 Why	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 _	nsubj
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Why	advcl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 of	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	2 Why	advcl:relcl
9	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 of	fixed
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 of	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Dodo	det
14	Dodo	Dodo	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pointing	punct
16	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	advcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 Alice	case
18	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 pointing	obl
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 finger	case
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 finger	nummod
21	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pointing	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 party	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 party	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 party	det
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 party	amod
26	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 crowded	case
28	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 crowded	advmod
29	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 party	nmod
30	round	round	ADP	_	31 her	case
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 crowded	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 calling	punct
33	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 party	acl
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 calling	compound:prt
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 way	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 way	det
37	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 way	amod
38	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 calling	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Prizes	punct
40	“	"	PUNCT	_	41 Prizes	punct
41	Prizes	prize	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 party	conj
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 party	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Dodo				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	point	gerund	the Dodo not said here	Alice		with one finger	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to alice=Recipient
3	call out speech: assert	gerund	the whole party at crowded and Prizes not said here		a confused way		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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