Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 91

“—and just take his head off outside,” the Queen added to one of the officers: but the Hatter was out of sight before the officer could get to the door.

Who acts: Queen, Hatter, officer · What happens: take off, add, be, get · To what, where: head, one, sight · 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 (Queen, Hatter, officer), 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	_	5 take	punct
2	—	-	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 take	cc
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 take	advmod
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 added	ccomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	5 take	compound:prt
9	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 take	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Queen	det
13	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 added	nsubj
14	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 one	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 added	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 officers	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 officers	det
19	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 one	nmod
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 sight	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 sight	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Hatter	det
23	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 sight	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 sight	cop
25	out	out	ADP	_	27 sight	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 sight	case
27	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 added	parataxis
28	before	before	SCONJ	_	32 get	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 officer	det
30	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 get	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 get	aux
32	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 sight	acl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 door	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 door	det
35	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 get	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 added	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take off in a quote	infinitive		Hatter's head			outside property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
2	add speech: assert	past	the Queen		one of the officers			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is	past	the Hatter			sight		tree rules
4	get	could	the officer	sight not said here			to the door	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus

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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