Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 22
Then followed the Knave of Hearts, carrying the King’s crown on a crimson velvet cushion; and, last of all this grand procession, came THE KING AND QUEEN OF HEARTS.
Who acts: grand procession, King · What happens: follow, carry, come, crown · To what, where: Knave, crown, crimson velvet cushion
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 (grand procession, King), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 followed | advmod |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Knave | det |
| 4 | Knave | Knave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Hearts | case |
| 6 | Hearts | Heart | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 Knave | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 carrying | punct |
| 8 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 followed | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 crown | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 King | case |
| 12 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carrying | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 cushion | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cushion | det |
| 15 | crimson | crimson | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cushion | amod |
| 16 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cushion | compound |
| 17 | cushion | cushion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carrying | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 came | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 came | cc |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 procession | punct |
| 21 | last | last | ADV | _ | 26 procession | advmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 procession | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 procession | det |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 procession | det |
| 25 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 procession | amod |
| 26 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 came | nsubj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 procession | punct |
| 28 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 followed | parataxis |
| 29 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 KING | det |
| 30 | KING | KING | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 came | nsubj |
| 31 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 QUEEN | cc |
| 32 | QUEEN | QUEEN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 KING | conj |
| 33 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 34 HEARTS | case |
| 34 | HEARTS | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 QUEEN | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the Knave of Hearts | then | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knave=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | gerund | the King's crown | a crimson velvet cushion | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | all grand procession | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | crown | the King | nom crown «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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