Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 35

The March Hare took the watch and looked at it gloomily: then he dipped it into his cup of tea, and looked at it again: but he could think of nothing better to say than his first remark, “It was the _best_ butter, you know.”

Who acts: March Hare, Hatter, you · What happens: take, look, dip, think, say, be · To what, where: watch, butter, cup · 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 (March Hare, Hatter, you), 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	3 Hare	det
2	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Hare	compound
3	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 watch	det
6	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 looked	cc
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 looked	obl
11	gloomily	gloomily	ADV	_	8 looked	advmod
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 dipped	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 dipped	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 dipped	nsubj
15	dipped	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 dipped	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 cup	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 cup	nmod:poss
19	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dipped	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 tea	case
21	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cup	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 looked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 looked	cc
24	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 looked	obl
27	again	again	ADV	_	24 looked	advmod
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 think	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 think	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 think	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 think	aux
32	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 took	parataxis
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 nothing	case
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 think	obl
35	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 nothing	amod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 say	mark
37	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 nothing	acl
38	than	than	ADP	_	41 remark	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 remark	nmod:poss
40	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	41 remark	amod
41	remark	remark	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 say	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 best	punct
43	“	"	PUNCT	_	48 best	punct
44	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 best	expl
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 best	cop
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 best	det
47	_	_	PUNCT	_	48 best	punct
48	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	41 remark	appos
49	_	_	PUNCT	_	50 butter	punct
50	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 best	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 know	punct
52	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	53 know	nsubj
53	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 think	advcl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 think	punct
55	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the March Hare	the watch				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme
2	look	past	the March Hare not said here				at butter; gloomily property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
3	dip	past	Hatter	butter	Hatter's cup of tea	then		vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into cup=Destination
4	look	past	the March Hare not said here			again	at butter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
5	think speech: other	could	Hatter				of nothing	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Hatter not said here				than Hatter's first remark	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is in a quote	past					butter obl; good property	tree rules
8	know in a quote	present	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	remark		Hatter					nom remark «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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