Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 74

Alice called after it; and the others all joined in chorus, “Yes, please do!” but the Mouse only shook its head impatiently, and walked a little quicker.

Who acts: Alice, Mouse · What happens: call, join, do, shake, walk · To what, where: Alice, head, little quicker · 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 (Alice, Mouse), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 joined	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Alice	acl
3	after	after	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obl
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 joined	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 joined	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 others	det
8	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 joined	nsubj
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 joined	advmod
10	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 chorus	case
12	chorus	chorus	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 joined	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
15	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	18 do	discourse
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Yes	punct
17	please	please	INTJ	_	18 do	discourse
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 joined	conj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 shook	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Mouse	det
23	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shook	nsubj
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 shook	advmod
25	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 do	conj
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 head	nmod:poss
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shook	obj
28	impatiently	impatiently	ADV	_	25 shook	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 walked	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 walked	cc
31	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 joined	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 quicker	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 quicker	amod
34	quicker	quicker	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 walked	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 joined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: express	participle		Alice not said here	after story		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	join	past	Alice			in chorus; all property	vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chorus=Theme
3	do in a quote	infinitive	Alice not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	shake	past	the Mouse	story's head		impatiently property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
5	walk	past	Alice not said here	a little quicker			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme quicker=Trajectory

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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