Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 61

“Come on, then,” said the Queen, “and he shall tell you his history.”

Who acts: Queen, arm · What happens: come on, say, tell · To what, where: history, you · 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, arm), 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	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 then	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Come	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Queen	det
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tell	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tell	nsubj
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 history	nmod:poss
19	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	come on in a quote	infinitive				then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Queen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	shall	arm	arm's history	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient history=Topic

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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