Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 104

“Once upon a time there were three little sisters,” the Dormouse began in a great hurry; “and their names were Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well—”

Who acts: three little sisters, names, sisters · What happens: be, begin, live, name · To what, where: three little sisters, great hurry, Elsie, bottom

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three little sisters, names, sisters), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 sisters	punct
2	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 were	advmod
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 time	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Once	obl
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 were	expl
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sisters	cop
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 sisters	nummod
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sisters	amod
10	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 began	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sisters	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 sisters	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Dormouse	det
14	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 hurry	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hurry	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hurry	amod
19	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 began	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 Elsie	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Elsie	cc
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 names	nmod:poss
24	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 Elsie	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 Elsie	cop
26	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 began	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Lacie	punct
28	Lacie	Lacie	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Elsie	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Tillie	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Tillie	cc
31	Tillie	Tillie	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Elsie	conj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 lived	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 lived	cc
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 lived	nsubj
35	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 began	conj
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 bottom	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 bottom	det
38	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lived	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 well	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 well	det
41	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bottom	nmod
42	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past		three little sisters		tree rules
2	begin	past	three little sisters		a great hurry	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is a in a quote	past	sisters's names	Elsie and Lacie and Tillie		tree rules
4	live in a quote	past	names = name		the bottom of a well	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bottom=Location
5	name in a quote		sisters = sister			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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