Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 4

The Fish-Footman began by producing from under his arm a great letter, nearly as large as himself, and this he handed over to the other, saying, in a solemn tone, “For the Duchess.

Who acts: Fish Footman, this · What happens: begin, produce, hand over, say · To what, where: great letter, arm, other, solemn tone · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Fish Footman, this), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Footman	det
2	Fish	Fish	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Footman	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Fish	punct
4	Footman	Footman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 producing	mark
7	producing	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 began	advcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 arm	case
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 arm	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 arm	nmod:poss
11	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 producing	obl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 letter	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 letter	amod
14	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 producing	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 large	punct
16	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	18 large	advmod
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 large	advmod
18	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 letter	amod
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 himself	case
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 large	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 handed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 handed	cc
23	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 handed	nsubj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 handed	nsubj
25	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	conj
26	over	over	ADP	_	25 handed	compound:prt
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 other	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 other	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 handed	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saying	punct
31	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 handed	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 tone	punct
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 tone	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 tone	det
35	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 tone	amod
36	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 saying	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Duchess	punct
38	“	"	PUNCT	_	41 Duchess	punct
39	For	for	ADP	_	41 Duchess	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Duchess	det
41	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 tone	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	begin	past	the Fish Footman			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	produce	gerund	the Fish Footman not said here	a great letter	frog's arm	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent letter=Result from arm=Material
3	hand over	past	this		the other	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to other=Destination
4	say speech: assert	gerund	this not said here		a solemn tone for the Duchess	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in tone=Manner

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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