Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 29
“There’s more evidence to come yet, please your Majesty,” said the White Rabbit, jumping up in a great hurry; “this paper has just been picked up.”
Who acts: White Rabbit · What happens: come, say, jump up, pick up · To what, where: great hurry, paper · 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 (White Rabbit), 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 | _ | 3 ’s | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 ’s | expl |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 evidence | amod |
| 5 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ’s | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 evidence | acl |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Majesty | punct |
| 10 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 12 Majesty | discourse |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 evidence | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’s | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’s | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Rabbit | det |
| 17 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Rabbit | amod |
| 18 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 jumping | punct |
| 20 | jumping | jump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 said | advcl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 jumping | compound:prt |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 hurry | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 hurry | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hurry | amod |
| 25 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 jumping | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 picked | punct |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 picked | punct |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 paper | det |
| 29 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 picked | aux |
| 31 | just | just | ADV | _ | 33 picked | advmod |
| 32 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 picked | aux:pass |
| 33 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 said | ccomp |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 picked | compound:prt |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 picked | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | to-infinitive | the White Rabbit not said here | yet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the White Rabbit | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | jump up | gerund | the White Rabbit not said here | a great hurry | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hurry=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | pick up in a quote | present · perfect · passive | this paper | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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