Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 86
This speech caused a remarkable sensation among the party.
Who acts: speech · What happens: cause · To what, where: remarkable sensation
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 (speech), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 speech | det |
| 2 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caused | nsubj |
| 3 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sensation | det |
| 5 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sensation | amod |
| 6 | sensation | sensation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caused | obj |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 party | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 party | det |
| 9 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caused | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | this speech | a remarkable sensation | among the party | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition sensation=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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