Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 6
The Frog-Footman repeated, in the same solemn tone, only changing the order of the words a little, “From the Queen.
Who acts: Frog Footman · What happens: repeat, change, order · To what, where: same solemn tone, order, words
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 (Frog Footman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Footman | det |
| 2 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Footman | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Frog | punct |
| 4 | Footman | Footman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 repeated | nsubj |
| 5 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tone | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 tone | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tone | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tone | amod |
| 10 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tone | amod |
| 11 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 repeated | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 changing | punct |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 changing | advmod |
| 14 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 repeated | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 order | det |
| 16 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 changing | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 words | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 words | det |
| 19 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 order | nmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 little | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 changing | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Queen | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Queen | punct |
| 24 | From | from | ADP | _ | 26 Queen | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Queen | det |
| 26 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 changing | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | past | the Frog Footman | the same solemn tone | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | change | gerund | the Frog Footman not said here | the order of the words | from the Queen; a little obl | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent order=Patient from queen=Initial_State | |||
| 3 | order | the words | nom order «communication 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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