Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 60

‘I’ll be judge, I’ll be jury,’ Said cunning old Fury: ‘I’ll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.’”

Who acts: I, judge · What happens: be, say, try, condemn · To what, where: judge, jury, whole cause, you · 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: who acts (I, judge), 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 judge	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 judge	nsubj
3	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 judge	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 judge	cop
5	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 jury	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 jury	nsubj
8	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 jury	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 jury	cop
10	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 judge	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 judge	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 judge	punct
13	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Said	ccomp
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Fury	amod
16	Fury	Fury	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 cunning	obl:unmarked
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 try	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 try	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 try	nsubj
20	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 try	aux
21	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 Said	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cause	det
23	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cause	amod
24	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 try	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 condemn	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 condemn	cc
27	condemn	condemn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 try	parataxis
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 condemn	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 death	case
30	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 condemn	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 condemn	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 condemn	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	future	I	judge		tree rules
2	is a	future	I	jury		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	judge			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	try	future	I	the whole cause		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Eventuality
5	condemn	infinitive		you	to death	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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