Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 49

“Now, I give you fair warning,” shouted the Queen, stamping on the ground as she spoke; “either you or your head must be off, and that in about half no time!

Who acts: Queen, Duchess · What happens: give off, shout, stamp, speak · To what, where: fair warning, you, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Queen, 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	_	5 give	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 give	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 give	iobj
7	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 warning	amod
8	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 shouted	punct
11	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 give	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Queen	det
13	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 shouted	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stamping	punct
15	stamping	stamp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 shouted	advcl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 ground	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ground	det
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stamping	obl
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 spoke	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 spoke	nsubj
21	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stamping	advcl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 off	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 off	punct
24	either	either	CCONJ	_	25 you	cc:preconj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 off	nsubj
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 head	cc
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 head	nmod:poss
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 you	conj
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 off	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 off	cop
31	off	off	ADP	_	5 give	compound:prt
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 time	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 time	cc
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 time	nsubj
35	in	in	ADP	_	39 time	case
36	about	about	ADV	_	37 half	advmod
37	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	39 time	det:predet
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 time	det
39	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obl
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	give off in a quote	present	the Queen = queen	fair warning	you		now; time	tree rules
2	shout speech: express	past	the Queen					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stamp	gerund	the Queen not said here			the ground		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ground=Destination
4	speak speech: other	past	Duchess					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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