Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 39
The Knave did so, very carefully, with one foot.
Who acts: Knave · What happens: do
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 (Knave), 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 Knave | det |
| 2 | Knave | Knave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 carefully | punct |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 carefully | advmod |
| 7 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 foot | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 foot | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 foot | nummod |
| 11 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Knave | with one foot; carefully property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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