Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 14
“_Un_important, of course, I meant,” the King hastily said, and went on to himself in an undertone,
Who acts: King · What happens: mean, say, go on · To what, where: Un, undertone · 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 (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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Un | punct |
| 3 | Un | Un | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 important | nsubj |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 important | punct |
| 5 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 of | punct |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 5 important | advmod |
| 8 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 of | fixed |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 meant | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 meant | nsubj |
| 11 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 important | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 important | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 important | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 16 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 17 said | advmod |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 21 | on | on | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 himself | case |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 went | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 undertone | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 undertone | det |
| 26 | undertone | undertone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | past | the King = king | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | hastily property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go on | past | Un | a undertone | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in undertone=Location |
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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