Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 36
“Nonsense!” said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen was silent.
Who acts: Alice, Queen · What happens: say, be · 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 (Alice, 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 Nonsense | punct |
| 2 | Nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nonsense | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nonsense | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 loudly | punct |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 loudly | advmod |
| 9 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 decidedly | cc |
| 11 | decidedly | decidedly | ADV | _ | 9 loudly | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 silent | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 silent | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Queen | det |
| 15 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 silent | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 silent | cop |
| 17 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Alice | loudly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Queen | silent 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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