Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 27
The King turned pale, and shut his note-book hastily.
Who acts: King · What happens: turn, shut · To what, where: note 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 turned | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shut | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 shut | cc |
| 7 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 book | nmod:poss |
| 9 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 book | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 note | punct |
| 11 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shut | obj |
| 12 | hastily | hastily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shut | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the King | pale property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shut | past | the King not said here | King's note book | hastily property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent book=Patient |
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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