Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 107

The moment Alice appeared, she was appealed to by all three to settle the question, and they repeated their arguments to her, though, as they all spoke at once, she found it very hard indeed to make out exactly what they said.

Who acts: moment, hedgehogs, Alice · What happens: appear, appeal, settle, repeat, speak, find · To what, where: Alice, question, arguments · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (moment, hedgehogs, Alice), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moment	det
2	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appeared	nsubj
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 appeared	nsubj
4	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 appealed	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 appealed	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 appealed	aux:pass
8	appealed	appeal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 appeared	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	8 appealed	xcomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 three	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 three	det
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 appealed	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 settle	mark
14	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 appealed	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 question	det
16	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 settle	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 repeated	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 repeated	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 repeated	nsubj
20	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 appeared	conj
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 arguments	nmod:poss
22	arguments	argument	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 repeated	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 repeated	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 though	punct
26	though	though	ADV	_	20 repeated	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 spoke	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 spoke	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 spoke	nsubj
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 they	det
31	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 repeated	parataxis
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 once	case
33	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	31 spoke	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 found	punct
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 found	nsubj
36	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 appeared	conj
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 found	obj
38	very	very	ADV	_	39 hard	advmod
39	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 found	advmod
40	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	42 make	advmod
41	to	to	PART	_	42 make	mark
42	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 found	ccomp
43	out	out	ADP	_	42 make	compound:prt
44	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	45 what	advmod
45	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	47 said	obj
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 said	nsubj
47	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 make	advcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the moment				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	appeal	past · passive		Alice		by all three	tree rules
3	settle	to-infinitive		the question			vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme question=Location
4	repeat	past	hedgehogs = hedgehog	hedgehogs's arguments	Alice	though property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent argument=Topic to she=Recipient
5	speak speech: other	past	hedgehogs = hedgehog				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	find	past	Alice	question		hard property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme
7	make out	to-infinitive				indeed property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
8	say speech: assert	past	hedgehogs = hedgehog				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
9	argue		hedgehogs = hedgehog				nom argument «communication transitive»: 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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