Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 51
“Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
Who acts: you, King · What happens: begin, say, go on, come, stop · To what, where: beginning, end · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 2 Begin | punct |
| 2 | Begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 beginning | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beginning | det |
| 5 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Begin | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Begin | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Begin | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Begin | parataxis |
| 11 | gravely | gravely | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 go | cc |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | on | on | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 come | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 come | nsubj |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 end | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 end | det |
| 22 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | obl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 stop | punct |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 stop | advmod |
| 25 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Begin | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Begin | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Begin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin in a quote | imperative | you not said here | at the beginning | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | gravely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go on in a quote | infinitive | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | come in a quote | present | you | to the end | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | stop in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | then | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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