Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 111

(It was this last remark that had made the whole party look so grave and anxious.)

Who acts: Nonsense, last remark, whole party · What happens: be, make, look · To what, where: last remark, whole party

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 (Nonsense, last remark, whole party), 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	_	6 remark	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 remark	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 remark	cop
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 remark	det
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 remark	amod
6	remark	remark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 made	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 made	aux
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 remark	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 party	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 party	amod
12	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obj
13	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 made	xcomp
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 grave	advmod
15	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 look	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 anxious	cc
17	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grave	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 remark	punct
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 remark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Nonsense	this last remark		tree rules
2	make	past · perfect	this last remark	the whole party		tree rules
3	look	infinitive	the whole party not said here		grave 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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