Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 6

They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse in the middle.

Who acts: animals · What happens: sit down

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 (animals), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 sat	advmod
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 sat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ring	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 ring	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ring	det
10	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ring	amod
11	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Mouse	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 Mouse	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Mouse	det
15	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ring	appos
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 middle	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 middle	det
18	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Mouse	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	animals = animal						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at once=Location

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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