Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 45
Here the Queen put on her spectacles, and began staring at the Hatter, who turned pale and fidgeted.
Who acts: Queen, Hatter · What happens: put, begin, stare, turn, fidget · To what, where: spectacles
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, Hatter), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 put | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 spectacles | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 spectacles | nmod:poss |
| 7 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 put | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 began | cc |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 11 | staring | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 began | xcomp |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 Hatter | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Hatter | det |
| 14 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 staring | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turned | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 turned | nsubj |
| 17 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Hatter | acl:relcl |
| 18 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 turned | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fidgeted | cc |
| 20 | fidgeted | fidget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 pale | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the Queen | Queen's spectacles; here | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on spectacle=Destination | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the Queen not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | stare | gerund | the Queen not said here | at the Hatter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hatter=Theme | ||||
| 4 | turn | past | the Hatter | pale property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fidget | participle | the Hatter not said here | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «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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