Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 39
“He must have imitated somebody else’s hand,” said the King.
Who acts: Rabbit, King · What happens: imitate, say · To what, where: hand · 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 (Rabbit, 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 | _ | 5 imitated | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 imitated | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 imitated | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 imitated | aux |
| 5 | imitated | imitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | else | else | ADV | _ | 6 somebody | advmod |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 somebody | case |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 imitated | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 imitated | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 imitated | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imitate in a quote | must · perfect | Rabbit | somebody's hand | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | 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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