Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 97
The King looked anxiously at the White Rabbit, who said in a low voice, “Your Majesty must cross-examine _this_ witness.”
Who acts: King, Majesty · What happens: look, say, cross-examine · To what, where: low voice, witness · 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 (King, Majesty), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 Rabbit | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Rabbit | det |
| 7 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Rabbit | amod |
| 8 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 14 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 voice | amod |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cross-examine | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 cross-examine | punct |
| 18 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 19 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cross-examine | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 cross-examine | aux |
| 21 | cross-examine | cross-examine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 cross-examine | punct |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 witness | det |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 witness | punct |
| 25 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cross-examine | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 cross-examine | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 cross-examine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the King | at the White Rabbit; anxiously property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at rabbit=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a low voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | cross-examine speech: other in a quote | must | Your Majesty | this witness | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Recipient |
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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