Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 50
“Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?” he asked.
Who acts: Majesty · What happens: begin, ask · To what, where: Majesty · 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 (Majesty), 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 begin | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 begin | advmod |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 begin | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 begin | nsubj |
| 5 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Majesty | punct |
| 7 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 9 Majesty | discourse |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 begin | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 begin | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 begin | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin in a quote | shall | Majesty | your Majesty | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Majesty | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how 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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