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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 28

“My name is Alice, so please your Majesty,” said Alice very politely; but she added, to herself, “Why, they’re only a pack of cards, after all.

Who acts: name, Alice, My · What happens: be, say, add, name · To what, where: Alice, pack · 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 (name, Alice, My), 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

punctnmod:possnsubjcopnsubjpunctadvmoddiscoursenmod:possappospunctpunctnsubjadvmodadvmodpunctccnsubjconjpunctcaseoblpunctpunctadvmodpunctnsubjparataxisadvmoddetobjcasenmodpunctcaseconjpunctroot“PUNCTMyPRONnameNOUNisAUXAlicePROPN,PUNCTsoADVpleaseINTJyourPRONMajestyNOUN,PUNCT”PUNCTsaidVERBAlicePROPNveryADVpolitelyADV;PUNCTbutCCONJshePRONaddedVERB,PUNCTtoADPherselfPRON,PUNCT“PUNCTWhyADV,PUNCTtheyPRON’reVERBonlyADVaDETpackNOUNofADPcardsNOUN,PUNCTafterADPallDET.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_5 Alicepunct
2MymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 namenmod:poss
3namenameNOUNNumber=Sing5 Alicensubj
4isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 Alicecop
5AliceAlicePROPNNumber=Sing13 saidnsubj
6,,PUNCT_10 Majestypunct
7sosoADV_10 Majestyadvmod
8pleasepleaseINTJ_10 Majestydiscourse
9youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 Majestynmod:poss
10MajestymajestyNOUNNumber=Sing5 Aliceappos
11,,PUNCT_5 Alicepunct
12”"PUNCT_5 Alicepunct
13saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
14AliceAlicePROPNNumber=Sing13 saidnsubj
15veryveryADV_16 politelyadvmod
16politelypolitelyADV_13 saidadvmod
17;;PUNCT_20 addedpunct
18butbutCCONJ_20 addedcc
19sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 addednsubj
20addedaddVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 saidconj
21,,PUNCT_23 herselfpunct
22totoADP_23 herselfcase
23herselfherselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes20 addedobl
24,,PUNCT_29 ’repunct
25“"PUNCT_29 ’repunct
26WhywhyADVPronType=Int29 ’readvmod
27,,PUNCT_26 Whypunct
28theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs29 ’rensubj
29’rebeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin20 addedparataxis
30onlyonlyADV_32 packadvmod
31aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art32 packdet
32packpackNOUNNumber=Sing29 ’reobj
33ofofADP_34 cardscase
34cardscardNOUNNumber=Plur32 packnmod
35,,PUNCT_37 allpunct
36afterafterADP_37 allcase
37allallDETPronType=Tot29 ’reconj
38..PUNCT_13 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is a in a quotepresentMy nameAlicetree rules
2say speech: assertpastAlicepolitely propertyvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3add speech: assertpastAliceAlicevn say-37.7-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic
4does in a quotepresentnamea pack of cardsvn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pack=Theme
5name in a quoteMynom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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