Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 15

Two began in a low voice, “Why the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to have been a _red_ rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake; and if the Queen was to find it out, we should all have our heads cut off, you know.

Who acts: Two, you, we, Queen · What happens: begin, be, put in, have, cut off, know · To what, where: low voice, red rose tree, white one, heads · 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 (Two, you, we, 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 voice	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 voice	det
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 voice	amod
6	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
9	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 is	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fact	det
11	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 is	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 see	cop
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 is	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
15	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Miss	punct
17	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 see	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Miss	punct
19	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 see	obj
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 see	advmod
21	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 see	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	31 tree	mark
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 tree	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 tree	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 tree	det
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	27 red	punct
27	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tree	amod
28	_	_	PUNCT	_	27 red	punct
29	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tree	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 rose	punct
31	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ought	xcomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 put	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 put	cc
34	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 put	nsubj
35	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 tree	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 one	det
37	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 one	amod
38	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 put	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	35 put	compound:prt
40	by	by	ADP	_	41 mistake	case
41	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 put	obl
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	56 have	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 have	cc
44	if	if	SCONJ	_	49 find	mark
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Queen	det
46	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 find	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 find	cop
48	to	to	PART	_	49 find	mark
49	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 have	advcl
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 find	obj
51	out	out	ADP	_	49 find	compound:prt
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 find	punct
53	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 have	nsubj
54	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 have	aux
55	all	all	ADV	_	56 have	advmod
56	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	parataxis
57	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 heads	nmod:poss
58	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 have	obj
59	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 heads	acl
60	off	off	ADP	_	59 cut	compound:prt
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 know	punct
62	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	63 know	nsubj
63	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Two		a low voice		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	is in a quote	present	you		here	see property	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	to-infinitive · perfect	you not said here	a red rose tree			tree rules
4	put in in a quote	past	we	a white one		by mistake	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme by mistake=Destination
5	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	the Queen			find property	tree rules
6	have in a quote	should	we	our heads		all property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
7	cut off in a quote	participle		our heads not said here			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
8	know in a quote	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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