Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 40
“Get up!” said the Queen, in a shrill, loud voice, and the three gardeners instantly jumped up, and began bowing to the King, the Queen, the royal children, and everybody else.
Who acts: Queen, three gardeners · What happens: get up, say, jump up, begin, bow · 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, three gardeners), 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 Get | punct |
| 2 | Get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 Get | compound:prt |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Get | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Get | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Queen | det |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 voice | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 12 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 voice | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shrill | punct |
| 14 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 voice | amod |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Queen | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 jumped | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 jumped | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gardeners | det |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 gardeners | nummod |
| 20 | gardeners | gardener | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 jumped | nsubj |
| 21 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 22 jumped | advmod |
| 22 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 jumped | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 began | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 began | cc |
| 26 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | parataxis |
| 27 | bowing | bow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 began | xcomp |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 King | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 King | det |
| 30 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 bowing | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Queen | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Queen | det |
| 33 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 King | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 children | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 children | det |
| 36 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 children | amod |
| 37 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 King | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 everybody | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 everybody | cc |
| 40 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 26 began | parataxis |
| 41 | else | else | ADV | _ | 40 everybody | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | jump up | past | the three gardeners | instantly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | bow | gerund | to the King and the Queen and the royal children | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to king=Pivot |
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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