Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 71

“We quarrelled last March—just before _he_ went mad, you know—” (pointing with his tea spoon at the March Hare,) “—it was at the great concert given by the Queen of Hearts, and I had to sing

Who acts: We, Hatter, you, spoon, great concert · What happens: quarrell, go, know, point, be, give · To what, where: great concert · 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 (We, Hatter, you, spoon), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 quarrelled	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 quarrelled	nsubj
3	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 March	amod
5	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 quarrelled	obl:unmarked
6	—	-	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 went	mark
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 before	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 quarrelled	parataxis
13	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 went	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 know	nsubj
16	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 went	ccomp
17	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
19	(	(	PUNCT	_	20 pointing	punct
20	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 went	advcl
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 spoon	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 spoon	nmod:poss
23	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spoon	compound
24	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pointing	obl
25	at	at	ADP	_	28 Hare	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Hare	det
27	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Hare	compound
28	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 pointing	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pointing	punct
30	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	48 had	punct
32	—	-	PUNCT	_	38 concert	punct
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 concert	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 concert	cop
35	at	at	ADP	_	38 concert	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 concert	det
37	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 concert	amod
38	concert	concert	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 had	nsubj
39	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 concert	acl
40	by	by	ADP	_	42 Queen	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Queen	det
42	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 given	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 Hearts	case
44	Hearts	Heart	PROPN	Number=Plur	42 Queen	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 had	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 had	cc
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 had	nsubj
48	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	conj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 sing	mark
50	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 had	xcomp

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quarrell in a quote	past	We			march		tree rules
2	go in a quote	past	Hatter				mad property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know in a quote	present	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	point	gerund	Hatter not said here				with Hatter's tea spoon; at the March Hare	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	past	spoon		the great concert			tree rules
6	give in a quote	participle		the great concert not said here			by the Queen of Hearts	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	have in a quote	past	the great concert					tree rules
8	sing speech: express in a quote	to-infinitive	the great concert not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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