Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 12
“That’s very important,” the King said, turning to the jury.
Who acts: That, King · What happens: be, say, turn · To what, where: jury · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, 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 | _ | 5 important | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 important | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 important | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 important | advmod |
| 5 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 important | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 important | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 turning | punct |
| 12 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 jury | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 jury | det |
| 15 | jury | jury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turning | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | That | important property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | the King not said here | the jury | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to jury=Trajectory |
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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