Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 15

As she said this, she came upon a neat little house, on the door of which was a bright brass plate with the name “W. RABBIT,” engraved upon it.

Who acts: Alice · What happens: say, come, be, engrave · To what, where: this, door, bright brass plate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 said	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 said	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 house	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 house	det
10	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 house	amod
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 house	amod
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 door	punct
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 door	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 door	det
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 plate	obl
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 plate	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 plate	det
21	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 plate	amod
22	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 plate	compound
23	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 door	nmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 name	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 name	det
26	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 plate	nmod
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 RABBIT	punct
28	W.	W.	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 RABBIT	compound
29	RABBIT	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 name	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 door	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
32	engraved	engrave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 came	advcl
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 engraved	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Alice	this			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic
2	come	past	Alice		the door	upon a neat little house	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon house=Location
3	is a	past		a bright brass plate		of the door; with the name and W. RABBIT	tree rules
4	engrave	participle	Alice not said here			upon Rabbit	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon it=Destination

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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