Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 42
_” the King exclaimed, turning to the jury, who instantly made a memorandum of the fact.
Who acts: King, jury · What happens: exclaim, turn, make · To what, where: jury, memorandum
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, jury), 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 | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
| 2 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 5 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 turning | punct |
| 7 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 exclaimed | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 jury | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 jury | det |
| 10 | jury | jury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turning | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 made | nsubj |
| 13 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 14 made | advmod |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 jury | acl:relcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 memorandum | det |
| 16 | memorandum | memorandum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 fact | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fact | det |
| 19 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 memorandum | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | turn in a quote | gerund | the King not said here | the jury | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to jury=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | past | the jury | a memorandum of the fact | instantly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memorandum=Product |
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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