Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 74

“Never!” said the Queen furiously, throwing an inkstand at the Lizard as she spoke.

Who acts: Queen · What happens: not say, throw, speak · To what, where: inkstand, Lizard · 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 (Queen), 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 said	punct
2	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 said	advmod
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Never	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Never	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Queen	det
7	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	furiously	furiously	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 throwing	punct
10	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 inkstand	det
12	inkstand	inkstand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 throwing	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 Lizard	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Lizard	det
15	Lizard	Lizard	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 throwing	obl
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 spoke	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 spoke	nsubj
18	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 throwing	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past	the Queen			furiously property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	throw	gerund	the Queen not said here	a inkstand	the Lizard		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent inkstand=Theme at lizard=Destination
3	speak speech: other	past	Queen				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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