Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 19

First came ten soldiers carrying clubs; these were all shaped like the three gardeners, oblong and flat, with their hands and feet at the corners: next the ten courtiers; these were ornamented all over with diamonds, and walked two and two, as the soldiers did.

Who acts: ten soldiers, soldiers · What happens: come, carry, shape, ornament, walk, do · To what, where: ten soldiers, clubs, these, two

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 (ten soldiers, soldiers), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 soldiers	nummod
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obj
5	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 soldiers	acl
6	clubs	club	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carrying	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 shaped	punct
8	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 shaped	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 shaped	aux:pass
10	all	all	ADV	_	11 shaped	advmod
11	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 came	advcl
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 gardeners	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gardeners	det
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 gardeners	nummod
15	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shaped	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 oblong	punct
17	oblong	oblong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 gardeners	amod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 flat	cc
19	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 oblong	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hands	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 hands	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hands	nmod:poss
23	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shaped	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 feet	cc
25	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hands	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 corners	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 corners	det
28	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hands	nmod
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 courtiers	punct
30	next	next	ADP	_	33 courtiers	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 courtiers	det
32	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 courtiers	nummod
33	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 corners	conj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 ornamented	punct
35	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	37 ornamented	nsubj:pass
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 ornamented	aux:pass
37	ornamented	ornament	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 came	conj
38	all	all	ADV	_	39 over	advmod
39	over	over	ADV	_	37 ornamented	advmod
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 diamonds	case
41	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 ornamented	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 walked	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 walked	cc
44	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
45	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 walked	obj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 two	cc
47	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 two	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 did	punct
49	as	as	SCONJ	_	52 did	mark
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 soldiers	det
51	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 did	nsubj
52	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 walked	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past		ten soldiers	first property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location soldier=Theme
2	carry	gerund	ten soldiers not said here	clubs		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme
3	shape	past · passive		these	like the three gardeners; with gardeners's hands at the corners and the ten courtiers and feet; all property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	ornament	past · passive		these	with diamonds; over property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with diamond=Theme
5	walk	past		two		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme two=Trajectory
6	do	past	the soldiers			vn act-114-1 «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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