Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 90
“You may go,” said the King, and the Hatter hurriedly left the court, without even waiting to put his shoes on.
Who acts: You, King, Hatter · What happens: go, say, leave, wait, put · To what, where: court, shoes · 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, Hatter), 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 | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | 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 | _ | 15 left | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 left | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Hatter | det |
| 13 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 left | nsubj |
| 14 | hurriedly | hurriedly | ADV | _ | 15 left | advmod |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 court | det |
| 17 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 waiting | punct |
| 19 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 21 waiting | mark |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 waiting | advmod |
| 21 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 left | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 put | mark |
| 23 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 waiting | xcomp |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 put | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADV | _ | 23 put | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | may | You | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | leave | past | the Hatter | the court | hurriedly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Theme | |||
| 4 | wait | gerund | the Hatter not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | put | to-infinitive | the Hatter not said here | Hatter's shoes | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shoe=Goal |
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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