Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 20

After these came the royal children; there were ten of them, and the little dears came jumping merrily along hand in hand, in couples: they were all ornamented with hearts.

Who acts: ten, little dears · What happens: come, be, jump, ornament · To what, where: royal children, couples, hand, dears

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, little dears), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 these	case
2	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 came	obl
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 children	det
5	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 children	amod
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 were	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 were	expl
9	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
10	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 were	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ten	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dears	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 dears	amod
17	dears	dear	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
19	jumping	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 came	xcomp
20	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	19 jumping	advmod
21	along	along	ADP	_	22 hand	case
22	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 jumping	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 hand	case
24	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 jumping	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 couples	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 couples	case
27	couples	couple	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 came	obl
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 ornamented	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 ornamented	nsubj:pass
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 ornamented	aux:pass
31	all	all	ADV	_	32 ornamented	advmod
32	ornamented	ornament	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 came	parataxis
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 hearts	case
34	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 ornamented	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past		the royal children		after these		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location child=Theme
2	be	past	ten of children		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	the little dears		couples			tree rules
4	jump	gerund	the little dears not said here		hand		along hand; merrily property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along hand=Trajectory
5	ornament	past · passive		dears = dear			with hearts; all property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with heart=Theme

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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