Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 28

The Hatter was the first to break the silence.

Who acts: Hatter · What happens: be, break · To what, where: silence

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), 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 Hatter	det
2	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 first	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 first	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 first	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 break	mark
7	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 first	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 silence	det
9	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 break	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 first	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Hatter					first property	tree rules
2	break	to-infinitive	the Hatter not said here	the silence					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer silence=Patient

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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