Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 13

And certainly there _was_ a most extraordinary noise going on within—a constant howling and sneezing, and every now and then a great crash, as if a dish or kettle had been broken to pieces.

Who acts: extraordinary noise · What happens: be, go on, break · To what, where: extraordinary noise, dish

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (extraordinary noise), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 there	cc
2	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	3 there	advmod
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 there	punct
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 noise	cop
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 noise	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 noise	det
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 extraordinary	advmod
9	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 noise	amod
10	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 there	conj
11	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 noise	acl
12	on	on	ADP	_	11 going	compound:prt
13	within	within	ADP	_	17 howling	case
14	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 howling	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 howling	det
16	constant	constant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 howling	amod
17	howling	howling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 going	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sneezing	cc
19	sneezing	sneezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 howling	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 crash	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 crash	cc
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 crash	det
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 crash	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 crash	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 crash	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 crash	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 crash	amod
28	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 noise	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 broken	punct
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 broken	mark
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 broken	mark
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 dish	det
33	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 broken	nsubj:pass
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 kettle	cc
35	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dish	conj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 broken	aux
37	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 broken	aux:pass
38	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 noise	parataxis
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 pieces	case
40	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 broken	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a extraordinary noise and every great crash		tree rules
2	go on	gerund	a extraordinary noise and every great crash not said here		within a constant howling and sneezing	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	break a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		a dish or kettle	to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to piece=Result

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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