Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 25
When the procession came opposite to Alice, they all stopped and looked at her, and the Queen said severely “Who is this?”
Who acts: procession, people, Queen · What happens: come, stop, look, say, be · To what, where: this · 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 (procession, people, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 procession | det |
| 3 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stopped | advcl |
| 5 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Alice | case |
| 7 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 opposite | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stopped | nsubj |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 stopped | advmod |
| 11 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 looked | cc |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stopped | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looked | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Queen | det |
| 19 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stopped | advcl |
| 21 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 25 this | advmod |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 this | punct |
| 23 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 this | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 this | cop |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 said | obj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the procession | opposite property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | people | all property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | look | past | people not said here | at Alice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | the Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | this | severely property | tree rules |
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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