Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 66
I must go back and see after some executions I have ordered;” and she walked off, leaving Alice alone with the Gryphon.
Who acts: I, Queen · What happens: go back, see, order, walk off, leave · To what, where: executions, Alice
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 see | cc |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 executions | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 executions | det |
| 9 | executions | execution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 see | obl |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 ordered | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ordered | aux |
| 12 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 executions | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 walked | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 walked | nsubj |
| 17 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | conj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 walked | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leaving | punct |
| 20 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 walked | advcl |
| 21 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 leaving | obj |
| 22 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 20 leaving | advmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 Gryphon | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Gryphon | det |
| 25 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 leaving | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | must | I | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | I not said here | after some executions | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | order | present · perfect | I | some executions not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent execution=Theme | ||||
| 4 | walk off in a quote | past | Queen | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | leave in a quote | gerund | Queen not said here | Alice | with the Gryphon; alone property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent alice=Recipient with gryphon=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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