Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 28
“Consider your verdict,” he said to the jury, in a low, trembling voice.
Who acts: King · What happens: consider, say, tremble · To what, where: verdict, jury, trembling voice · 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 | _ | 2 Consider | punct |
| 2 | Consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 verdict | nmod:poss |
| 4 | verdict | verdict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Consider | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Consider | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Consider | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 jury | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 jury | det |
| 11 | jury | jury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 voice | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 voice | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 voice | det |
| 15 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 trembling | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 low | punct |
| 17 | trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 voice | amod |
| 18 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider in a quote | infinitive | your verdict | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent verdict=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | King | the jury | a trembling voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to jury=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | tremble | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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