Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 53

However, it was over at last, and they sat down again in a ring, and begged the Mouse to tell them something more.

Who acts: back, birds · What happens: be, sit down, beg, tell · To what, where: ring, Mouse, something, birds · 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 (back, birds), 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	_	7 last	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 last	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 last	cop
5	over	over	ADV	_	7 last	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 last	case
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sat	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sat	nsubj
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 last	parataxis
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 sat	compound:prt
13	again	again	ADV	_	11 sat	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 ring	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 ring	det
16	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 begged	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 begged	cc
19	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sat	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Mouse	det
21	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 begged	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 tell	mark
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 begged	advcl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tell	iobj
25	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 tell	obj
26	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 something	amod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	back					however, last, over property	tree rules
2	sit down	past	birds = bird			a ring	again		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ring=Location
3	beg speech: request	past	birds = bird not said here		the Mouse				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent mouse=Recipient
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	birds = bird not said here	something	birds = bird				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient something=Topic

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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