Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 80
“Well, I’d hardly finished the first verse,” said the Hatter, “when the Queen jumped up and bawled out, ‘He’s murdering the time!
Who acts: Hatter, Queen · What happens: have, finish, say, jump up, bawl out, murder · To what, where: first verse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hatter, Queen), 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 | _ | 7 finished | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 finished | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 ’d | nsubj |
| 5 | ’d | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Well | acl:relcl |
| 6 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 7 finished | advmod |
| 7 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 verse | det |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 verse | amod |
| 10 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 finished | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 finished | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 finished | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Hatter | det |
| 15 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 jumped | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 jumped | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 jumped | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Queen | det |
| 20 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 jumped | nsubj |
| 21 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 jumped | compound:prt |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bawled | cc |
| 24 | bawled | bawl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 jumped | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 bawled | compound:prt |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 ’s | punct |
| 27 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 ’s | punct |
| 28 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 ’s | nsubj |
| 29 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 jumped | parataxis |
| 30 | murdering | murder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 ’s | xcomp |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 time | det |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 murdering | obj |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | the Hatter = hatter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | finish in a quote | past | the first verse | hardly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality verse=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the Hatter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | jump up in a quote | past | the Queen | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bawl out speech: other in a quote | participle | the Queen not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | murder in a quote | gerund | the Queen not said here | time | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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