Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 16
Alice began in a loud, indignant voice, but she stopped hastily, for the White Rabbit cried out, “Silence in the court!” and the King put on his spectacles and looked anxiously round, to make out who was talking.
Who acts: Alice, White Rabbit, King · What happens: begin, stop, cry out, put, look, make out · To what, where: loud indignant voice, Silence, spectacles
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 (Alice, White Rabbit, 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 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 voice | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 voice | det |
| 5 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 voice | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 loud | punct |
| 7 | indignant | indignant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 voice | amod |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 began | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stopped | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 stopped | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stopped | nsubj |
| 12 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 began | parataxis |
| 13 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 12 stopped | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cried | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 cried | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Rabbit | det |
| 17 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Rabbit | amod |
| 18 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 cried | nsubj |
| 19 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stopped | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 cried | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Silence | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Silence | punct |
| 23 | Silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cried | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 court | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 court | det |
| 26 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Silence | nmod |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 court | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Silence | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 put | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 King | det |
| 31 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 put | nsubj |
| 32 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 cried | conj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 spectacles | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 spectacles | nmod:poss |
| 35 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 put | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 looked | cc |
| 37 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 cried | conj |
| 38 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 37 looked | advmod |
| 39 | round | round | ADV | _ | 37 looked | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 make | punct |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 make | mark |
| 42 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 37 looked | parataxis |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 42 make | compound:prt |
| 44 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 talking | nsubj |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 talking | aux |
| 46 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 make | advcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Alice | a loud indignant voice | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | Alice | hastily property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | the White Rabbit | Silence in the court | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | put | past | the King | Rabbit's spectacles | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on spectacle=Destination | ||||
| 5 | look | past | the White Rabbit not said here | anxiously, round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | make out | to-infinitive | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | talk | past · progressive | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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