Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 3

The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at one corner of it: “No room!

Who acts: table · What happens: be, crowd together · To what, where: large one, three, one corner

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 (table), 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 table	det
2	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 one	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 one	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 crowded	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 crowded	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 three	det
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 crowded	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 crowded	aux:pass
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 crowded	advmod
13	crowded	crowd	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 one	conj
14	together	together	ADV	_	13 crowded	advmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 corner	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 corner	nummod
17	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crowded	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 corner	nmod
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 room	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 room	punct
22	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 room	det
23	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 one	conj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the table	a large one and no room					tree rules
2	crowd together	past · passive		the three		one corner of table		all, together property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: subject=Theme at corner=Destination

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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