Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 46

“Off with their heads!” and the procession moved on, three of the soldiers remaining behind to execute the unfortunate gardeners, who ran to Alice for protection.

Who acts: heads, soldiers, unfortunate gardeners · What happens: move on, remain, execute, run · To what, where: three, unfortunate gardeners, Alice

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 (heads, soldiers, unfortunate gardeners), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 moved	punct
2	Off	off	ADV	_	5 heads	advmod
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 heads	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 heads	nmod:poss
5	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 moved	nsubj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 heads	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 heads	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 procession	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 procession	det
10	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heads	conj
11	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	on	on	ADV	_	11 moved	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 three	punct
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 moved	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 soldiers	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 soldiers	det
17	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 three	nmod
18	remaining	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 soldiers	acl
19	behind	behind	ADV	_	18 remaining	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 execute	mark
21	execute	execute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 remaining	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 gardeners	det
23	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 gardeners	amod
24	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 execute	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ran	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 ran	nsubj
27	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 gardeners	acl:relcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 Alice	case
29	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 ran	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 protection	case
31	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ran	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 moved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	move on	past	roses's heads and the procession	three of the soldiers			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	remain	gerund	the soldiers not said here			behind property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	execute	to-infinitive	the soldiers not said here	the unfortunate gardeners			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gardener=Patient
4	run	past	the unfortunate gardeners		Alice	for protection	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to alice=Result

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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