Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 57

“Give your evidence,” the King repeated angrily, “or I’ll have you executed, whether you’re nervous or not.”

Who acts: you, King, Dormouse, your · What happens: give, repeat, have, execute, be, evidence · To what, where: evidence · 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 (you, King, Dormouse, 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	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 repeated	nsubj
9	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Give	parataxis
10	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	9 repeated	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 have	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
15	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Give	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 executed	nsubj
18	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 have	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ’re	punct
20	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	22 ’re	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 ’re	nsubj
22	’re	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 have	conj
23	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ’re	xcomp
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 not	cc
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 nervous	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	imperative	you not said here	your evidence		tree rules
2	repeat	past	the King		angrily property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	have in a quote	future	Dormouse			tree rules
4	execute in a quote	participle	you			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	does in a quote	present	you		nervous property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
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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