Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 5
“That’s the judge,” she said to herself, “because of his great wig.”
Who acts: That, Alice · What happens: be, say · To what, where: judge, Alice · 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 (That, Alice), 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 judge | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 judge | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 judge | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 judge | det |
| 5 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 judge | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 judge | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 herself | case |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wig | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 wig | punct |
| 14 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 18 wig | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 because | fixed |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wig | nmod:poss |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wig | amod |
| 18 | wig | wig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 wig | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 wig | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | the judge | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Alice | Alice | because Rabbit's great wig | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient |
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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