Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 3
“The trial cannot proceed,” said the King in a very grave voice, “until all the jurymen are back in their proper places—_all_,” he repeated with great emphasis, looking hard at Alice as he said so.
Who acts: trial, King, jurymen · What happens: not proceed, say, be, repeat, look · To what, where: grave 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 (trial, King, jurymen), 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 | _ | 6 proceed | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 trial | det |
| 3 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 proceed | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 proceed | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 proceed | advmod |
| 6 | proceed | proceed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 proceed | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 proceed | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 voice | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 voice | det |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 grave | advmod |
| 15 | grave | grave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 voice | amod |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 places | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 places | punct |
| 19 | until | until | ADP | _ | 28 places | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 jurymen | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 jurymen | det |
| 22 | jurymen | juryman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 places | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 places | cop |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 places | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 places | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 places | nmod:poss |
| 27 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 places | amod |
| 28 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | obl |
| 29 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 all | punct |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 31 all | punct |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 places | conj |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 31 all | punct |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 all | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 all | punct |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 repeated | nsubj |
| 36 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 all | acl:relcl |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 emphasis | case |
| 38 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 emphasis | amod |
| 39 | emphasis | emphasis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 repeated | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 looking | punct |
| 41 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 repeated | advcl |
| 42 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 41 looking | advmod |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 44 Alice | case |
| 44 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 looking | obl |
| 45 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 47 said | mark |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 said | nsubj |
| 47 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 looking | advcl |
| 48 | so | so | ADV | _ | 47 said | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not proceed in a quote | can | the trial | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | a grave voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | all jurymen | until jurymen's proper places | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | repeat | past | King | with great emphasis | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with emphasis=Subeventuality | ||||
| 5 | look | gerund | King not said here | at Alice; hard property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at alice=Theme | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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