Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 25
“Consider your verdict,” the King said to the jury.
Who acts: King · What happens: consider, say · To what, where: verdict, jury · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Consider | punct |
| 2 | Consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 verdict | nmod:poss |
| 4 | verdict | verdict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Consider | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Consider | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Consider | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 jury | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 jury | det |
| 12 | jury | jury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider in a quote | infinitive | your verdict | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent verdict=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | the jury | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to jury=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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