Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 63

“Come, _that’s_ a good thing!” she said to herself, for she had felt quite unhappy at the number of executions the Queen had ordered.

Who acts: Alice, Queen · What happens: come, say, feel, order · To what, where: _, Alice, number, executions · 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 (Alice, Queen), 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	14 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 _	punct
4	_	_	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Come	obl
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 ’s	nsubj
6	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 _	acl:relcl
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 _	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thing	det
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Come	obj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 herself	case
16	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 felt	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 felt	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 felt	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 felt	aux
21	felt	feel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 said	conj
22	quite	quite	ADV	_	23 unhappy	advmod
23	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 felt	xcomp
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 number	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 number	det
26	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 felt	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 executions	case
28	executions	execution	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 number	nmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Queen	det
30	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 ordered	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 ordered	aux
32	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 executions	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	infinitive		_				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thing=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	Alice		Alice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic
3	feel	past · perfect	Alice			the number of executions	unhappy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	order	past · perfect	the Queen	executions not said here				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent execution=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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