Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 101
“Collar that Dormouse,” the Queen shrieked out.
Who acts: Collar · What happens: shriek out
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Collar), 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 Collar | punct |
| 2 | Collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shrieked | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 Dormouse | mark |
| 4 | Dormouse | Dormouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Collar | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Collar | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Collar | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Queen | det |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 shrieked | nsubj |
| 9 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 shrieked | compound:prt |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shrieked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shriek out | past | Collar | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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