Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 18

At this moment the King, who had been for some time busily writing in his note-book, cackled out “Silence!” and read out from his book, “Rule Forty-two.

Who acts: King · What happens: write, cackle out, read out · To what, where: note book, Silence, book

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	At	at	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cackled	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 cackled	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 writing	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 writing	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 writing	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 writing	aux
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 time	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 writing	obl
13	busily	busily	ADV	_	14 writing	advmod
14	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 King	acl
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 book	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 book	nmod:poss
17	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 book	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 note	punct
19	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 writing	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cackled	punct
21	cackled	cackle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 cackled	compound:prt
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 Silence	punct
24	Silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cackled	obl
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 Silence	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 Silence	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 read	cc
28	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 cackled	conj
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 read	compound:prt
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 book	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 book	nmod:poss
32	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 read	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Rule	punct
34	“	"	PUNCT	_	35 Rule	punct
35	Rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 book	appos
36	Forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 Rule	flat
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 two	punct
38	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 Forty	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 cackled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past · perfect · progressive	the King		King's note book	time	busily property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in book=Destination
2	cackle out	participle	the King	Silence		moment		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	read out	infinitive	the King not said here		King's book			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from book=Source

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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