Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 16

So you see, Miss, we’re doing our best, afore she comes, to—” At this moment Five, who had been anxiously looking across the garden, called out “The Queen!

Who acts: you, we, Miss, moment · What happens: see, be, do, come, look, call out · To what, where: Miss, best, Queen

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 (you, we, Miss, moment), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 see	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Miss	punct
5	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 see	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ’re	punct
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 ’re	nsubj
8	’re	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 see	conj
9	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 ’re	xcomp
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 best	nmod:poss
11	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 doing	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 comes	punct
13	afore	afore	SCONJ	_	15 comes	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 comes	nsubj
15	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 see	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 to	punct
17	to	to	ADP	_	15 comes	advmod
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 to	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 comes	punct
20	At	at	ADP	_	22 moment	case
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 moment	det
22	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 comes	obl
23	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 moment	flat
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 looking	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 looking	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 looking	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 looking	aux
28	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	_	29 looking	advmod
29	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 moment	conj
30	across	across	ADP	_	32 garden	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 garden	det
32	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 looking	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 called	punct
34	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 looking	conj
35	out	out	ADP	_	34 called	compound:prt
36	“	"	PUNCT	_	38 Queen	punct
37	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Queen	det
38	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 called	obl
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	you	Miss			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer miss=Stimulus
2	be	present	we				tree rules
3	do	gerund	we not said here	our best			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
4	come	present	Miss		moment		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	look in a quote	past · perfect · progressive	this moment			across the garden; anxiously property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent across garden=Theme
6	call out speech: assert in a quote	participle	this moment not said here	the Queen			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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