Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 24
“The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away!”
Who acts: Queen, Knave · What happens: make, steal, take · To what, where: tarts
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 (Queen, Knave), 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 | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 made | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Hearts | case |
| 5 | Hearts | Heart | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 Queen | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 tarts | det |
| 10 | tarts | tart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 day | punct |
| 12 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 day | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 15 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 day | compound |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 Knave | punct |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Knave | det |
| 19 | Knave | Knave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 day | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Hearts | case |
| 21 | Hearts | Heart | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 Knave | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stole | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stole | nsubj |
| 24 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | conj |
| 25 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 tarts | det |
| 26 | tarts | tart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 stole | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 took | punct |
| 28 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 took | cc |
| 29 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | conj |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 took | obj |
| 31 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 32 away | advmod |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 took | advmod |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | past | the Queen of Hearts | some tarts | day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tart=Product | |||
| 2 | steal in a quote | past | Knave | that tarts | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tart=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | past | the Queen of Hearts not said here | tarts = tart | away property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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