Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 76
“Then the words don’t _fit_ you,” said the King, looking round the court with a smile.
Who acts: words, King · What happens: not do, say, look · To what, where: fit, you · 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 (words, 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 | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 do | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | advcl |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 do | advmod |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 fit | punct |
| 8 | fit | fit | X | _ | 5 do | obj |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | discourse |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looking | punct |
| 17 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | advcl |
| 18 | round | round | ADP | _ | 20 court | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 court | det |
| 20 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looking | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 smile | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 smile | det |
| 23 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looking | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | present | the words | fit | you | then | tree rules | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | the King not said here | round the court; with a smile | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round court=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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