Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 52
“Oh, _please_ mind what you’re doing!” cried Alice, jumping up and down in an agony of terror.
Who acts: you, Alice · What happens: be, do, cry, jump up · To what, where: agony · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Alice), 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 | _ | 14 cried | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 mind | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ’re | vocative |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 ’re | obj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 ’re | nsubj |
| 10 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 cried | advcl |
| 11 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 ’re | xcomp |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 ’re | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 ’re | punct |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 cried | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 jumping | punct |
| 17 | jumping | jump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 cried | advcl |
| 18 | up | up | ADV | _ | 17 jumping | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 down | cc |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 up | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 agony | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 agony | det |
| 23 | agony | agony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 jumping | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 terror | case |
| 25 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 agony | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does in a quote | present | you | mind vocative | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | gerund | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Alice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | jump up | gerund | Alice not said here | a agony of terror | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in agony=Trajectory |
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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