Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 106

When she got back to the Cheshire Cat, she was surprised to find quite a large crowd collected round it: there was a dispute going on between the executioner, the King, and the Queen, who were all talking at once, while all the rest were quite silent, and looked very uncomfortable.

Who acts: Alice, dispute, rest, Queen · What happens: get back, be, find, collect, go on, talk · To what, where: large crowd, executioner, Queen

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 (Alice, dispute, rest, Queen), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 surprised	advcl
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 Cat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Cat	det
7	Cheshire	Cheshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Cat	compound
8	Cat	Cat	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 surprised	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 surprised	cop
12	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 find	mark
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 surprised	advcl
15	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	18 crowd	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 crowd	det
17	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 crowd	amod
18	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 find	obj
19	collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 crowd	acl
20	round	round	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 collected	obl
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 was	punct
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 was	expl
24	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 surprised	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 dispute	det
26	dispute	dispute	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 was	nsubj
27	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 dispute	acl
28	on	on	ADP	_	27 going	compound:prt
29	between	between	ADP	_	31 executioner	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 executioner	det
31	executioner	executioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 going	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 King	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 King	det
34	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 dispute	appos
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 looked	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 looked	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Queen	det
38	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 looked	nsubj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 talking	punct
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 talking	obl
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 talking	aux
42	all	all	ADV	_	43 talking	advmod
43	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 Queen	parataxis
44	at	at	ADP	_	45 once	case
45	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	43 talking	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 silent	punct
47	while	while	SCONJ	_	53 silent	mark
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	50 rest	det:predet
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 rest	det
50	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 silent	nsubj
51	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 silent	cop
52	quite	quite	ADV	_	53 silent	advmod
53	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 talking	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 looked	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 looked	cc
56	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 surprised	conj
57	very	very	ADV	_	58 uncomfortable	advmod
58	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 looked	xcomp
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get back	past	Alice			to the Cheshire Cat result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cat=Result
2	is	past	Alice			surprised property	tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	quite large crowd			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crowd=Topic
4	collect	participle		quite large crowd not said here		round fight	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	be	past	a dispute		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	go on	gerund	a dispute not said here		the executioner		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between executioner=Location
7	talk	past · progressive		the Queen		all property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is	past	all rest			silent property	tree rules
9	look	past	the Queen			uncomfortable property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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