Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 87

Some of the birds hurried off at once: one old Magpie began wrapping itself up very carefully, remarking, “I really must be getting home; the night-air doesn’t suit my throat!” and a Canary called out in a trembling voice to its children, “Come away, my dears!

Who acts: Some, night air · What happens: hurry off, begin, wrap up, remark, get, not suit · To what, where: birds, sensation, throat, Canary, trembling voice, dears · 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 (Some, night air), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 began	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 birds	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 birds	det
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Some	nmod
5	hurried	hurry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 birds	acl
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 hurried	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 hurried	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 Magpie	nummod
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Magpie	amod
12	Magpie	Magpie	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 began	nsubj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	wrapping	wrap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 began	xcomp
15	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 wrapping	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 wrapping	compound:prt
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 carefully	advmod
18	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	14 wrapping	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 remarking	punct
20	remarking	remark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 wrapping	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 getting	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 getting	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 getting	nsubj
24	really	really	ADV	_	27 getting	advmod
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 getting	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 getting	aux
27	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 remarking	conj
28	home	home	ADV	_	27 getting	advmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 suit	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 air	det
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 air	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 night	punct
33	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 suit	nsubj
34	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 suit	aux
35	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 suit	advmod
36	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	parataxis
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 throat	nmod:poss
38	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 suit	obj
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 suit	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	36 suit	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 called	cc
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 Canary	det
43	Canary	Canary	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 called	nsubj:pass
44	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 began	conj
45	out	out	ADP	_	44 called	compound:prt
46	in	in	ADP	_	49 voice	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 voice	det
48	trembling	trembling	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 voice	compound
49	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 called	obl
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 children	case
51	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 children	nmod:poss
52	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 voice	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 Come	punct
54	“	"	PUNCT	_	55 Come	punct
55	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	parataxis
56	away	away	ADV	_	55 Come	advmod
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 dears	punct
58	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 dears	nmod:poss
59	dears	dear	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 Come	obl
60	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hurry off	participle		the birds not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory
2	begin	past	Some				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	wrap up	gerund	Some not said here	sensation		carefully property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
4	remark speech: express	gerund	Some not said here				vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	get in a quote	must · progressive	Some			home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	not suit in a quote	present · do-support	the night air	my throat			tree rules
7	call out speech: assert	participle · passive		a Canary	a trembling voice to sensation's children		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
8	come away in a quote	infinitive		my dears		away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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