Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 7
“And that’s the jury-box,” thought Alice, “and those twelve creatures,” (she was obliged to say “creatures,” you see, because some of them were animals, and some were birds,) “I suppose they are the jurors.”
Who acts: that, Alice, you, some, birds · What happens: be, think, oblige, say, see, suppose · To what, where: jury box, Alice, creatures, animals, birds, jurors · 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, you, some), 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 thought | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 box | cc |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 box | nsubj |
| 4 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 box | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 box | det |
| 6 | jury | jury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 box | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 jury | punct |
| 8 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 box | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 box | punct |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 creatures | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 creatures | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 creatures | cc |
| 16 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 creatures | det |
| 17 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 creatures | nummod |
| 18 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Alice | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 obliged | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 obliged | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 obliged | aux:pass |
| 24 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 say | mark |
| 26 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 obliged | xcomp |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 creatures | punct |
| 28 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 say | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 creatures | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 creatures | punct |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 see | nsubj |
| 32 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 creatures | acl:relcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 animals | punct |
| 34 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 39 animals | mark |
| 35 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 animals | nsubj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 them | case |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 some | nmod |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 animals | cop |
| 39 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 creatures | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 suppose | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 suppose | cc |
| 42 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 44 birds | det |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 birds | cop |
| 44 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 suppose | nsubj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 birds | punct |
| 46 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 44 birds | punct |
| 47 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 49 suppose | punct |
| 48 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 suppose | nsubj |
| 49 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 obliged | conj |
| 50 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 jurors | nsubj |
| 51 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 jurors | cop |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 jurors | det |
| 53 | jurors | juror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 suppose | ccomp |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 obliged | punct |
| 55 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that | the jury box | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Alice and that twelve creatures | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | oblige | past · passive | Alice | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | creatures and animals | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent creature=Topic | |||||
| 5 | see | present | you | creatures and animals not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | some | animals | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | some birds | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | suppose in a quote | present | some birds | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | is a in a quote | present | birds = bird | the jurors | tree rules |
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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