Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 34
The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, screamed “Off with her head!
Who acts: Queen · What happens: turn, glare, scream · To what, where: crimson
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | crimson | crimson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 fury | case |
| 6 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 glaring | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 glaring | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 and | punct |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 glaring | mark |
| 11 | glaring | glare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 turned | advcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 glaring | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 moment | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 moment | det |
| 16 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 glaring | obl |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 beast | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 beast | det |
| 19 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 beast | amod |
| 20 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 moment | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 screamed | punct |
| 22 | screamed | scream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 glaring | conj |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Off | punct |
| 24 | Off | off | ADV | _ | 22 screamed | advmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 head | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 head | nmod:poss |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 screamed | obl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the Queen | crimson | with fury | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crimson=Theme | |||
| 2 | glare | gerund | the Queen not said here | moment | at Queen | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at she=Location | |||
| 3 | scream speech: express | participle | the Queen not said here | with Queen's head; off property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with head=Theme |
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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