Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 69
“He denies it,” said the King: “leave out that part.”
Who acts: Hatter, King · What happens: deny, say, leave out · To what, where: evidence, part · 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 (Hatter, 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 | _ | 3 denies | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 denies | nsubj |
| 3 | denies | deny | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 denies | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 denies | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 denies | 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 | _ | 12 leave | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 leave | punct |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 leave | compound:prt |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 part | det |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leave | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 leave | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deny in a quote | present | Hatter | evidence | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | leave out in a quote | infinitive | that part | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
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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