Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 71

“Why, there they are!” said the King triumphantly, pointing to the tarts on the table.

Who acts: verses, King · What happens: be, say, point · To what, where: tarts, table · 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, 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	_	9 said	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 are	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 are	expl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 are	nsubj
6	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 are	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 are	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	triumphantly	triumphantly	ADV	_	9 said	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pointing	punct
14	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 tarts	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tarts	det
17	tarts	tart	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pointing	obl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 table	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 table	det
20	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pointing	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	does in a quote	present	verses = verse		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	the King			triumphantly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	point	gerund	the King not said here	the tarts	the table		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to tart=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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