Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 129

He moved on as he spoke, and the Dormouse followed him: the March Hare moved into the Dormouse’s place, and Alice rather unwillingly took the place of the March Hare.

Who acts: Hatter, Dormouse, March Hare, Alice · What happens: move on, speak, follow, move, take · To what, where: Hatter, place · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Hatter, Dormouse, March Hare, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 moved	nsubj
2	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 moved	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 spoke	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 spoke	nsubj
6	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 moved	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 followed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 followed	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Dormouse	det
10	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 followed	nsubj
11	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 moved	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 followed	obj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 moved	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Hare	det
15	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Hare	compound
16	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 moved	nsubj
17	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 moved	parataxis
18	into	into	ADP	_	22 place	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Dormouse	det
20	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 place	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 Dormouse	case
22	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 moved	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 took	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 took	cc
25	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 took	nsubj
26	rather	rather	ADV	_	28 took	advmod
27	unwillingly	unwillingly	ADV	_	28 took	advmod
28	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 moved	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 place	det
30	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 Hare	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Hare	det
33	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Hare	compound
34	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 place	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 moved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	move on	past	Hatter				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	speak speech: other	past	Hatter				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	follow	past	the Dormouse	Hatter			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	move	past	the March Hare		the Dormouse's place		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into place=Trajectory
5	take	past	Alice	the place of the March Hare		unwillingly property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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