Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 83
“If that’s all you know about it, you may stand down,” continued the King.
Who acts: you, all · What happens: know, stand down, continue · To what, where: King · 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, all), 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 | _ | 13 stand | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 all | mark |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 all | nsubj |
| 4 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 all | cop |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 stand | nsubj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 all | acl:relcl |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 know | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 all | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 stand | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 stand | aux |
| 13 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 continued | ccomp |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 stand | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stand | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 stand | punct |
| 17 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 continued | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | you | about court | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stand down in a quote | may | all | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | continue | past | the King | 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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