Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 28
“Call the first witness,” said the King; and the White Rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet, and called out, “First witness!”
Who acts: King, White Rabbit · What happens: call, say, blow, call out · To what, where: first witness, three blasts, trumpet · 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, White Rabbit), 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 Call | punct |
| 2 | Call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 witness | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 witness | amod |
| 5 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Call | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Call | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Call | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 blew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 blew | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Rabbit | det |
| 14 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Rabbit | amod |
| 15 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 blew | nsubj |
| 16 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 blasts | nummod |
| 18 | blasts | blast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 blew | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 trumpet | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 trumpet | det |
| 21 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blew | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 called | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 called | cc |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 called | compound:prt |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 witness | punct |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 witness | punct |
| 28 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 29 witness | amod |
| 29 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | parataxis |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 29 witness | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 witness | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | infinitive | the first witness | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent witness=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | blow | past | the White Rabbit | three blasts | the trumpet | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent blast=Patient | |||
| 4 | call out speech: assert | participle | the King not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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