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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 31

“I beg pardon, your Majesty,” he began, “for bringing these in: but I hadn’t quite finished my tea when I was sent for.”

Who acts: King, Rabbit · What happens: beg, begin, bring in, not finish, send · To what, where: pardon, these, tea, King · 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, 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

punctnsubjccompobjpunctnmod:possappospunctpunctnsubjpunctpunctmarkxcompobjcompound:prtpunctccnsubjauxadvmodadvmodconjnmod:possobjmarknsubjaux:passadvcloblpunctpunctroot“PUNCTIPRONbegVERBpardonNOUN,PUNCTyourPRONMajestyNOUN,PUNCT”PUNCThePRONbeganVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTforSCONJbringingVERBthesePRONinADP:PUNCTbutCCONJIPRONhadAUXn’tPARTquiteADVfinishedVERBmyPRONteaNOUNwhenSCONJIPRONwasAUXsentVERBforADP.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_3 begpunct
2IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs3 begnsubj
3begbegVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 beganccomp
4pardonpardonNOUNNumber=Sing3 begobj
5,,PUNCT_7 Majestypunct
6youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 Majestynmod:poss
7MajestymajestyNOUNNumber=Sing4 pardonappos
8,,PUNCT_3 begpunct
9”"PUNCT_3 begpunct
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 begannsubj
11beganbeginVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12,,PUNCT_15 bringingpunct
13“"PUNCT_15 bringingpunct
14forforSCONJ_15 bringingmark
15bringingbringVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part11 beganxcomp
16thesethisPRONNumber=Plur PronType=Dem15 bringingobj
17ininADP_15 bringingcompound:prt
18::PUNCT_17 inpunct
19butbutCCONJ_24 finishedcc
20IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs24 finishednsubj
21hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 finishedaux
22n’tnotPARTPolarity=Neg24 finishedadvmod
23quitequiteADV_24 finishedadvmod
24finishedfinishVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 beganconj
25mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 teanmod:poss
26teateaNOUNNumber=Sing24 finishedobj
27whenwhenSCONJ_30 sentmark
28IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs30 sentnsubj
29wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 sentaux:pass
30sentsendVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass24 finishedadvcl
31forforADP_30 sentobl
32..PUNCT_11 beganpunct
33”"PUNCT_11 beganpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1beg speech: request in a quotepresentthe King = kingpardonvn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient
2beginpastRabbitvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3bring in in a quotegerundRabbit not said herethesevn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme this=Asset
4not finish in a quotepastthe King = kingmy teavn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector tea=Eventuality
5send in a quotepast · passivethe King = kingvn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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