Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 50

Then they all crowded round her once more, while the Dodo solemnly presented the thimble, saying “We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble;” and, when it had finished this short speech, they all cheered.

Who acts: Dodo, We, prizes, your · What happens: present, say, beg, finish, cheer, accept · To what, where: thimble, acceptance, elegant thimble · 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, We, prizes, your), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 crowded	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crowded	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 crowded	det
4	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	round	round	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crowded	obl
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 crowded	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 presented	punct
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 presented	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Dodo	det
12	Dodo	Dodo	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 presented	nsubj
13	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	_	14 presented	advmod
14	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crowded	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thimble	det
16	thimble	thimble	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 presented	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saying	punct
18	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 presented	advcl
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 beg	punct
20	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 beg	nsubj
21	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 saying	ccomp
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 acceptance	nmod:poss
23	acceptance	acceptance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 beg	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 thimble	case
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 thimble	det
26	elegant	elegant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 thimble	amod
27	thimble	thimble	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 acceptance	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 beg	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 beg	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 finished	cc
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 finished	punct
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 finished	advmod
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 finished	nsubj:pass
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 finished	aux
35	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 presented	conj
36	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 speech	det
37	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 speech	amod
38	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 finished	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 cheered	punct
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 cheered	nsubj
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 cheered	advmod
42	cheered	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crowded	parataxis
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 crowded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	present	past	the Dodo	the thimble	solemnly property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thimble=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the Dodo not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	beg speech: request in a quote	present	We	your acceptance of this elegant thimble		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent acceptance=Recipient
4	finish	past · perfect · passive		acceptance		tree rules
5	cheer	past	prizes = prize			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	accept in a quote		your	this elegant thimble		nom acceptance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent 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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