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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

advmoddetobjcasenmodpunctadvcldetnmod:posscaseobjcasedetamodcompoundoblpunctccpunctadvmodcasedetdetamodnsubjpunctparataxisdetnsubjccconjcasenmodpunctrootThenADVfollowedVERBtheDETKnavePROPNofADPHeartsPROPN,PUNCTcarryingVERBtheDETKingPROPN’sPARTcrownNOUNonADPaDETcrimsonADJvelvetNOUNcushionNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTlastADVofADPallDETthisDETgrandADJprocessionNOUN,PUNCTcameVERBTHEDETKINGPROPNANDCCONJQUEENPROPNOFADPHEARTSNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem2 followedadvmod
2followedfollowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 Knavedet
4KnaveKnavePROPNNumber=Sing2 followedobj
5ofofADP_6 Heartscase
6HeartsHeartPROPNNumber=Plur4 Knavenmod
7,,PUNCT_8 carryingpunct
8carryingcarryVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part2 followedadvcl
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 Kingdet
10KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing12 crownnmod:poss
11’s'sPART_10 Kingcase
12crowncrownNOUNNumber=Sing8 carryingobj
13ononADP_17 cushioncase
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art17 cushiondet
15crimsoncrimsonADJDegree=Pos17 cushionamod
16velvetvelvetNOUNNumber=Sing17 cushioncompound
17cushioncushionNOUNNumber=Sing8 carryingobl
18;;PUNCT_28 camepunct
19andandCCONJ_28 camecc
20,,PUNCT_26 processionpunct
21lastlastADV_26 processionadvmod
22ofofADP_26 processioncase
23allallDETPronType=Tot26 processiondet
24thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem26 processiondet
25grandgrandADJDegree=Pos26 processionamod
26processionprocessionNOUNNumber=Sing28 camensubj
27,,PUNCT_26 processionpunct
28camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 followedparataxis
29THEtheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 KINGdet
30KINGKINGPROPNNumber=Sing28 camensubj
31ANDandCCONJ_32 QUEENcc
32QUEENQUEENPROPNNumber=Sing30 KINGconj
33OFofADP_34 HEARTScase
34HEARTSheartNOUNNumber=Plur32 QUEENnmod
35..PUNCT_2 followedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1followpastthe Knave of Heartsthenvn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knave=Theme
2carrygerundthe King's crowna crimson velvet cushionvn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme
3comepastall grand processionvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4crownthe Kingnom 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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