Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 1

A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of the garden: the roses growing on it were white, but there were three gardeners at it, busily painting them red.

Who acts: large rose tree, roses, three gardeners · What happens: stand, grow, be, paint · To what, where: entrance, tree, gardeners

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large rose tree, roses, three gardeners), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tree	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tree	amod
3	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tree	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 rose	punct
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	nsubj
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	near	near	ADP	_	9 entrance	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 entrance	det
9	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 garden	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 garden	det
12	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 entrance	nmod
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 white	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 roses	det
15	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 white	nsubj
16	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 roses	acl
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 growing	obl
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 white	cop
20	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stood	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 were	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 were	cc
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 were	expl
24	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stood	conj
25	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 gardeners	nummod
26	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 were	nsubj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gardeners	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 painting	punct
30	busily	busily	ADV	_	31 painting	advmod
31	painting	paint	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 stood	advcl
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 painting	obj
33	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 painting	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	a large rose tree		the entrance of the garden		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near entrance=Location
2	grow	gerund	the roses not said here		tree		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location
3	is	past	the roses			white property	tree rules
4	be	past	three gardeners at tree		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	paint	gerund	a large rose tree not said here	gardeners = gardener		busily, red property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=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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