Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 141

The Dormouse had closed its eyes by this time, and was going off into a doze; but, on being pinched by the Hatter, it woke up again with a little shriek, and went on: “—that begins with an M, such as mouse-traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness—you know you say things are “much of a muchness”—did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?”

Who acts: Dormouse, Hatter, M, that, you, muchness · What happens: close, go off, pinch, wake up, go on, begin · To what, where: eyes, doze, memory, M, things, thing · 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 (Dormouse, Hatter, M, that), 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	2 Dormouse	det
2	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 closed	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 closed	aux
4	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eyes	nmod:poss
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 closed	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 closed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 going	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 going	aux
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 closed	conj
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 going	compound:prt
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 doze	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 doze	det
17	doze	doze	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 going	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 pinched	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 pinched	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pinched	punct
21	on	on	SCONJ	_	23 pinched	mark
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 pinched	aux:pass
23	pinched	pinch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 closed	conj
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 Hatter	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Hatter	det
26	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 pinched	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 woke	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 woke	nsubj
29	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 pinched	advcl
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 woke	compound:prt
31	again	again	ADV	_	29 woke	advmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	35 shriek	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 shriek	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 shriek	amod
35	shriek	shriek	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 woke	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 went	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 went	cc
38	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 woke	conj
39	on	on	ADP	_	38 went	compound:prt
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	44 begins	punct
41	“	"	PUNCT	_	44 begins	punct
42	—	-	PUNCT	_	44 begins	punct
43	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 begins	nsubj
44	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 went	parataxis
45	with	with	ADP	_	47 M	case
46	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 M	det
47	M	M	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 begins	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 traps	punct
49	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	53 traps	case
50	as	as	ADP	_	49 such	fixed
51	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 traps	compound
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 mouse	punct
53	traps	trap	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 M	advcl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 moon	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 moon	cc
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 moon	det
57	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 begins	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 memory	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 memory	cc
60	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 woke	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 muchness	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 muchness	cc
63	muchness	muchness	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 woke	obl
64	—	-	PUNCT	_	66 know	punct
65	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	66 know	nsubj
66	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 closed	parataxis
67	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	68 say	nsubj
68	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	66 know	ccomp
69	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 say	obj
70	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	72 much	cop
71	“	"	PUNCT	_	72 much	punct
72	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 things	amod
73	of	of	ADP	_	75 muchness	case
74	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	75 muchness	det
75	muchness	muchness	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 much	nmod
76	”	"	PUNCT	_	66 know	punct
77	—	-	PUNCT	_	81 see	punct
78	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	81 see	aux
79	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	81 see	nsubj
80	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	81 see	advmod
81	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 closed	parataxis
82	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	84 thing	det:predet
83	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	84 thing	det
84	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	81 see	obj
85	as	as	ADP	_	87 drawing	case
86	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	87 drawing	det
87	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	81 see	obl
88	of	of	ADP	_	90 muchness	case
89	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	90 muchness	det
90	muchness	muchness	NOUN	Number=Sing	87 drawing	nmod
91	?	?	PUNCT	_	81 see	punct
92	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 closed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	past · perfect	the Dormouse	M's eyes		time		tree rules
2	go off	past · progressive	the Dormouse not said here		a doze			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
3	pinch	gerund · passive	the Hatter					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	wake up	past	M	memory		again	with a little shriek; muchness obl	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with shriek=Instrument
5	go on	past	M not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	begin in a quote	present	that	a M			the moon obl	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent m=Eventuality
7	know in a quote	present	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	say speech: assert in a quote	present	you	things				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
9	is	present					of a muchness; much property	tree rules
10	see in a quote	past · do-support	you	such thing		ever	as a drawing of a muchness	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus as drawing=Attribute
11	draw in a quote		a muchness					nom drawing «communication intransitive»: of=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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