Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 12

Seven flung down his brush, and had just begun “Well, of all the unjust things—” when his eye chanced to fall upon Alice, as she stood watching them, and he checked himself suddenly: the others looked round also, and all of them bowed low.

Who acts: Seven, eye, business, others, all · What happens: fling down, begin, chance, fall, stand, watch · To what, where: brush, Alice, roots, business

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 (Seven, eye, business, others), 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	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 flung	nsubj
2	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 flung	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brush	nmod:poss
5	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flung	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 begun	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 begun	cc
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 begun	aux
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 begun	advmod
10	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 flung	parataxis
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 begun	punct
12	Well	well	INTJ	_	2 flung	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 things	punct
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 things	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 things	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 things	det
17	unjust	unjust	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 things	amod
18	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flung	conj
19	—	-	PUNCT	_	24 chanced	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 —	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 chanced	advmod
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 eye	nmod:poss
23	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 chanced	nsubj
24	chanced	chance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 things	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 fall	mark
26	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 chanced	xcomp
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 Alice	case
28	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 fall	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stood	punct
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 stood	mark
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 stood	nsubj
32	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 chanced	parataxis
33	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 stood	xcomp
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 watching	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 checked	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 checked	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 checked	nsubj
38	checked	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 stood	conj
39	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 checked	obj
40	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	38 checked	advmod
41	:	:	PUNCT	_	44 looked	punct
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 others	det
43	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 looked	nsubj
44	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 checked	parataxis
45	round	round	ADV	_	44 looked	advmod
46	also	also	ADV	_	44 looked	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 bowed	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 bowed	cc
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	52 bowed	nsubj
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 them	case
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 all	nmod
52	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 looked	conj
53	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	52 bowed	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fling down	past	Seven	business's brush			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brush=Theme
2	begin	past · perfect					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	chance	participle	business's eye				vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	fall	to-infinitive	business's eye not said here		Alice		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon alice=Location
5	stand	past	eye				vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	watch	gerund	eye not said here	roots = root			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	check	past	business	business		suddenly property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
8	look round	past	the others			round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
9	bow	past	all			low property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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