Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 27
“Idiot!” said the Queen, tossing her head impatiently; and, turning to Alice, she went on, “What’s your name, child?”
Who acts: Idiot, Queen · What happens: say, toss, turn, go on, be · To what, where: head, Alice, name · 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 (Idiot, 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 | _ | 2 Idiot | punct |
| 2 | Idiot | idiot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Idiot | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Idiot | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tossing | punct |
| 9 | tossing | toss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tossing | obj |
| 12 | impatiently | impatiently | ADV | _ | 9 tossing | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turning | punct |
| 16 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 went | csubj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Alice | case |
| 18 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 turning | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 name | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 name | punct |
| 25 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 28 name | nsubj |
| 26 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 name | cop |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 name | nmod:poss |
| 28 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 child | punct |
| 30 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 name | conj |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 30 child | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Idiot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | toss | gerund | Idiot not said here | Queen's head | impatiently property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 3 | turn | gerund | Alice | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to alice=Result | |||||
| 4 | go on | past | Queen | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | your name and child | 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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