Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 40
“But who is to give the prizes?” quite a chorus of voices asked.
What happens: be, ask, chorus · To what, where: voices · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 give | cc |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 give | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prizes | det |
| 8 | prizes | prize | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 give | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 11 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 chorus | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 chorus | det |
| 13 | chorus | chorus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 voices | case |
| 15 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 chorus | nmod |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 voices | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | give property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | participle | voices not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | chorus | voices | nom chorus «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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