Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 33
“Who is it directed to?” said one of the jurymen.
Who acts: one · What happens: direct, say · 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 (one), 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 | _ | 5 directed | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 directed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 directed | aux:pass |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 directed | nsubj |
| 5 | directed | direct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 directed | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 directed | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 directed | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 jurymen | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 jurymen | det |
| 13 | jurymen | juryman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | direct in a quote | present · passive | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | one of the jurymen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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