Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 72
“I must go and get ready to play croquet with the Queen,” and she hurried out of the room.
Who acts: Duchess · What happens: go, get, play, hurry · To what, where: croquet, room
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 (Duchess), 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 | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 get | cc |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 7 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 get | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 play | mark |
| 9 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ready | xcomp |
| 10 | croquet | croquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 play | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 Queen | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Queen | det |
| 13 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 play | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hurried | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hurried | nsubj |
| 18 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 room | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 room | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 room | det |
| 22 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hurried | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | must | Duchess | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | infinitive | Duchess not said here | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | play in a quote | to-infinitive | Duchess not said here | croquet | with the Queen | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent croquet=Theme with queen=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | hurry | past | Duchess | the room | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out room=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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