Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 110
And he added in an undertone to the Queen, “Really, my dear, _you_ must cross-examine the next witness.
Who acts: Treacle · What happens: add, cross-examine · To what, where: you, undertone, next witness · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Treacle), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 added | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 added | nsubj |
| 3 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 undertone | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 undertone | det |
| 6 | undertone | undertone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 added | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Queen | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Queen | det |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 added | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dear | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 dear | punct |
| 12 | Really | really | ADV | _ | 15 dear | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dear | punct |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 dear | nmod:poss |
| 15 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 added | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 _ | punct |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 dear | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 added | obj |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 cross-examine | punct |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 cross-examine | aux |
| 21 | cross-examine | cross-examine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 added | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 witness | det |
| 23 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 witness | amod |
| 24 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cross-examine | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | Treacle | you | a undertone | to the Queen | tree rules | ||
| 2 | cross-examine speech: other in a quote | must | the next witness | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Recipient |
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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