Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 36
“Are they in the prisoner’s handwriting?” asked another of the jurymen.
Who acts: verses, handwriting · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: handwriting, another · 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 (verses, handwriting), 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 | _ | 8 handwriting | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 handwriting | cop |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 handwriting | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 handwriting | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prisoner | det |
| 6 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 handwriting | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 prisoner | case |
| 8 | handwriting | handwriting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 handwriting | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 handwriting | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 asked | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 jurymen | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 jurymen | det |
| 15 | jurymen | juryman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 another | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | verses = verse | the prisoner's handwriting | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the prisoner's handwriting | another | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent another=Recipient |
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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