Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 48
“A fine day, your Majesty!” the Duchess began in a low, weak voice.
Who acts: Duchess · What happens: begin · To what, where: low weak voice
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duchess), 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 | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 began | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Majesty | punct |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | vocative |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Duchess | det |
| 11 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 began | nsubj |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 voice | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 voice | det |
| 15 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 voice | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 low | punct |
| 17 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 voice | amod |
| 18 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 began | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the Duchess | a low weak voice | day | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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