Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 101

She had already heard her sentence three of the players to be executed for having missed their turns, and she did not like the look of things at all, as the game was in such confusion that she never knew whether it was her turn or not.

Who acts: Alice, game, look · What happens: hear, execute, miss, not like, be, not know · To what, where: sentence, turns, look, such confusion, turn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, game, look), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	aux
3	already	already	ADV	_	4 heard	advmod
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sentence	nmod:poss
6	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 heard	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 players	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 players	det
10	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 three	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	13 executed	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 executed	aux:pass
13	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 heard	ccomp
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 missed	mark
15	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 missed	aux
16	missed	miss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 executed	advcl
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 turns	nmod:poss
18	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 missed	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 like	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 like	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 like	nsubj
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 like	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 like	advmod
24	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 heard	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 look	det
26	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 like	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 things	case
28	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 look	nmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 all	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 things	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 confusion	punct
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 confusion	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 game	det
34	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 confusion	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 confusion	cop
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 confusion	case
37	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 confusion	amod
38	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 like	conj
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 knew	mark
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 knew	nsubj
41	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	42 knew	advmod
42	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 confusion	advcl
43	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	47 turn	mark
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 turn	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 turn	cop
46	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 turn	nmod:poss
47	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 knew	ccomp
48	or	or	CCONJ	_	49 not	cc
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 turn	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	Alice	Alice's sentence		tree rules
2	execute	to-infinitive · passive				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»
3	miss	gerund · perfect		players's turns		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer turn=Stimulus
4	not like	past · do-support	Alice	the look of things at all		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot look=Theme
5	is	past	the game		such confusion	tree rules
6	not know	past	Alice			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a	past	look	Alice's turn		tree rules
8	sentence		Alice			nom sentence «communication transitive»: poss=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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