Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 62
“Of course twinkling begins with a T!” said the King sharply.
Who acts: twinkling, King · What happens: begin, say · 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 (twinkling, King), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 5 begins | advmod |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Of | fixed |
| 4 | twinkling | twinkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 begins | nsubj |
| 5 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | advcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 T | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 T | det |
| 8 | T | t | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 begins | obl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 begins | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 begins | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin in a quote | present | twinkling | with a T | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with t=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the King | sharply property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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