Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 59

“That’s the most important piece of evidence we’ve heard yet,” said the King, rubbing his hands; “so now let the jury—”

Who acts: That, we, King · What happens: be, hear, say, rub, let · To what, where: important piece, evidence, hands, jury · 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 (That, we, 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	_	7 piece	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 piece	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 piece	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 piece	det
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 important	advmod
6	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 piece	amod
7	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 evidence	case
9	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 piece	nmod
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
11	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	aux
12	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 evidence	acl:relcl
13	yet	yet	ADV	_	12 heard	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 piece	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 piece	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 King	det
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rubbing	punct
20	rubbing	rub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 said	advcl
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hands	nmod:poss
22	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 rubbing	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	27 let	advmod
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 let	advmod
27	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 jury	det
29	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 let	obj
30	—	-	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	the important piece		of evidence	tree rules
2	hear in a quote	present · perfect	we	evidence not said here	yet		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer evidence=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	the King				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	rub	gerund	the King not said here	King's hands			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
5	let in a quote	infinitive		the jury	now		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jury=Theme

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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