Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 77
“You’re a _very_ poor _speaker_,” said the King.
Who acts: You, King · What happens: be, say · To what, where: _ · 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), 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 ’re | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 ’re | nsubj |
| 3 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 _ | det |
| 5 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ’re | obj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 poor | advmod |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 poor | punct |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ’re | conj |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 speaker | punct |
| 10 | speaker | speaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 poor | appos |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 speaker | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’re | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’re | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does in a quote | present | You | a _ | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot _=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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