Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 44

There was exactly one a-piece, all round.

Who acts: one piece · What happens: be

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 piece), 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	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 piece	nummod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 piece	det
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 a	punct
7	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 round	punct
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 round	advmod
10	round	round	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a one piece			there		round property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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