Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 4

No room!” they cried out when they saw Alice coming.

Who acts: elbows, Alice · What happens: cry out, see, come · To what, where: Alice

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 (elbows, Alice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg11:446): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 room	det
2	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	ccomp
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 room	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 room	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 cried	compound:prt
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 saw	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	advcl
11	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obj
12	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 saw	xcomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cry out speech: express in a quote	past	elbows = elbow		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see in a quote	past	elbows = elbow	Alice	tree rules
3	come in a quote	gerund	Alice not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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