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title: When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon, Was kindly permit… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon, Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon: While the Panther received knife and fork with a growl, And concluded the banquet—] Who acts: Was, Panther. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 118

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When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon, Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon: While the Panther received knife and fork with a growl, And concluded the banquet—\]

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**Who acts:** Was, Panther · **What happens:** finish, permit, receive, conclude · **To what, where:** pie, pocket, knife, banquet

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Was, Panther), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11:11:118
# text = When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon, Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon: While the Panther received knife and fork with a growl, And concluded the banquet—]
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pie	pie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Owl	Owl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	boon	boon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	Was	Be	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	permitted	permit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Panther	Panther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
27	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	growl	growl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	concluded	conclude	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · passive |  | the pie |  |  |  | as a boon; the Owl *obl*; all *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **permit** | participle | Was | pocket |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme |
| 3 | **receive** | past | the Panther | knife and fork |  |  |  | with a growl | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme |
| 4 | **conclude** | past | the Panther *not said here* | the banquet |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banquet=Theme |

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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.

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**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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