Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 113

“She’s in prison,” the Queen said to the executioner: “fetch her here.”

Who acts: Alice, Queen · What happens: be, say, fetch · To what, where: prison, executioner, Alice · 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, 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	_	5 prison	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 prison	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 prison	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 prison	case
5	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 prison	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 prison	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Queen	det
9	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 executioner	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 executioner	det
13	executioner	executioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 fetch	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 fetch	punct
16	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fetch	obj
18	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 fetch	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 fetch	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 fetch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Alice			prison	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Queen		the executioner		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to executioner=Recipient clause=Topic
3	fetch in a quote	infinitive		Alice		here	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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