Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 37

The King laid his hand upon her arm, and timidly said “Consider, my dear: she is only a child!”

Who acts: King, Queen · What happens: lay, say, consider, be · To what, where: hand, child · 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 (King, 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 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obj
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 arm	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 arm	nmod:poss
8	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
11	timidly	timidly	ADV	_	12 said	advmod
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 Consider	punct
14	Consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dear	punct
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 dear	nmod:poss
17	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Consider	vocative
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 child	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 child	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 child	cop
21	only	only	ADV	_	23 child	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 child	det
23	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	parataxis
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 child	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 child	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lay	past	the King	business's hand	upon Queen's arm	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	the King not said here		timidly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	consider in a quote	infinitive			my dear vocative	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	Queen	a 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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