Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 110

The Queen’s argument was, that if something wasn’t done about it in less than no time she’d have everybody executed, all round.

Who acts: argument, Queen · What happens: not do, be, execute, argue · To what, where: something

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 (argument, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 argument	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Queen	case
4	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	nsubj:outer
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 have	cop
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 have	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 done	mark
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 done	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 done	aux:pass
11	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 done	advmod
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 have	advcl
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 done	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 time	case
16	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	19 time	advmod
17	than	than	ADP	_	16 less	fixed
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 time	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
21	’d	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
23	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	22 have	obj
24	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 everybody	acl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 round	punct
26	all	all	ADV	_	27 round	advmod
27	round	round	ADV	_	24 executed	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not do a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		something		about Nonsense	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	is	would · past	the Queen's argument		time	have property	tree rules
3	execute	participle				round property	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	argue		the Queen				nom argument «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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