Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 43
And then, turning to the rose-tree, she went on, “What _have_ you been doing here?”
Who acts: Queen · What happens: turn, go on, do · To what, where: rose tree · 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 turning | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 turning | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 turning | punct |
| 4 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 7 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 rose | punct |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turning | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turning | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 doing | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 doing | punct |
| 16 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 have | obj |
| 17 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 doing | aux |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 doing | aux |
| 22 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 went | parataxis |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 doing | advmod |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 doing | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 turning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | the rose tree | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to tree=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | go on | past | Queen | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | here | 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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