Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 41
“Leave off that!” screamed the Queen.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: leave off, scream · To what, where: that · 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 2 | Leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 screamed | ccomp |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 Leave | compound:prt |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Leave | obj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 7 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Queen | det |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 screamed | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave off in a quote | infinitive | that | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | |||||
| 2 | scream speech: express | past | the Queen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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