Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 79

Here the Dormouse shook itself, and began singing in its sleep “_Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle_—” and went on so long that they had to pinch it to make it stop.

Who acts: Dormouse, Twinkle, head · What happens: shake, begin, sing, go on, have, pinch · To what, where: head, Twinkle, sleep

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 (Dormouse, Twinkle, head), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 shook	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Dormouse	det
3	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 shook	nsubj
4	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 shook	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 began	cc
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shook	parataxis
9	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 began	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 sleep	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sleep	nmod:poss
12	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 singing	obl
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 Twinkle	punct
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 Twinkle	punct
15	Twinkle	twinkle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 singing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 twinkle	punct
17	twinkle	twinkle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Twinkle	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 twinkle	punct
19	twinkle	twinkle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Twinkle	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 twinkle	punct
21	twinkle	twinkle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Twinkle	conj
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	4 shook	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 shook	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 went	cc
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shook	conj
27	on	on	ADV	_	26 went	advmod
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 long	advmod
29	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 went	advmod
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 had	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 had	nsubj
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 went	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 pinch	mark
34	pinch	pinch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 had	xcomp
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 pinch	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 make	mark
37	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 pinch	advcl
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 make	obj
39	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 make	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shake	past	the Dormouse	head	here		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
2	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	sing speech: express	gerund		Twinkle and twinkle and twinkle and twinkle	head's sleep		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sleep=Location
4	go on	past	the Dormouse not said here			long property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	past	Twinkle				tree rules
6	pinch	to-infinitive	Twinkle not said here	head			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	make	to-infinitive	Twinkle not said here	head			tree rules
8	stop	infinitive	head not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
9	sleep		head				nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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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