Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 62
As they walked off together, Alice heard the King say in a low voice, to the company generally, “You are all pardoned.”
Who acts: players, Alice, King · What happens: walk off, hear, say, pardon · To what, where: low voice, 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 (players, Alice, King), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 walked | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | advcl |
| 4 | off | off | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
| 7 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 say | nsubj |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | ccomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 14 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 voice | amod |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 say | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 company | punct |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 company | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 company | det |
| 19 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 voice | appos |
| 20 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 19 company | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pardoned | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 pardoned | punct |
| 23 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 pardoned | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 pardoned | aux:pass |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 26 pardoned | advmod |
| 26 | pardoned | pardon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 heard | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk off | past | players = player | off, together property | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Alice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the King | a low voice | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner | ||||
| 4 | pardon in a quote | present · passive | You | all property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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