Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 38

The Queen turned angrily away from him, and said to the Knave “Turn them over!”

Who acts: Queen · What happens: turn, say, turn over · To what, where: Knave, hands · 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 (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	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	3 turned	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 away	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 Knave	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Knave	det
13	Knave	Knave	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 Turn	punct
15	Turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 Turn	obj
17	over	over	ADP	_	15 Turn	compound:prt
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 Turn	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 Turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the Queen			away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	the Queen not said here		the Knave		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to knave=Recipient clause=Topic
3	turn over in a quote	infinitive		hands = hand			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent they=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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