Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 46

“Give your evidence,” said the King; “and don’t be nervous, or I’ll have you executed on the spot.”

Who acts: King, you, your · What happens: give, say, not be, have, execute, evidence · To what, where: evidence, you, spot · 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, you, your), 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 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 evidence	nmod:poss
4	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 nervous	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 nervous	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 nervous	cc
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 nervous	aux
14	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 nervous	advmod
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 nervous	cop
16	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 have	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
20	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 have	aux
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 nervous	conj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 have	obj
23	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 have	xcomp
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 spot	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 spot	det
26	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 executed	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 nervous	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 nervous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	infinitive		your evidence			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the King				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not is in a quote	infinitive · do-support				nervous property	tree rules
4	have in a quote	future	the King = king	you			tree rules
5	execute in a quote	participle	you not said here		the spot		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	evidence in a quote		your				nom evidence «cognition transitive»: poss=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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