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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 44

“May it please your Majesty,” said Two, in a very humble tone, going down on one knee as he spoke, “we were trying—”

Who acts: tree, Two, Knave, we · What happens: please, say, go down, speak, try · To what, where: Majesty, humble tone, one knee · 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 (tree, Two, Knave, we), 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

punctauxnsubjccompnmod:possobjpunctpunctnsubjpunctcasedetadvmodamodoblpunctadvcladvmodcasenummodoblmarknsubjadvclpunctpunctnsubjauxparataxispunctpunctroot“PUNCTMayAUXitPRONpleaseVERByourPRONMajestyNOUN,PUNCT”PUNCTsaidVERBTwoNUM,PUNCTinADPaDETveryADVhumbleADJtoneNOUN,PUNCTgoingVERBdownADVonADPoneNUMkneeNOUNasSCONJhePRONspokeVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTwePRONwereAUXtryingVERB—PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_4 pleasepunct
2MaymayAUXVerbForm=Fin4 pleaseaux
3ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 pleasensubj
4pleasepleaseVERBVerbForm=Inf9 saidccomp
5youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 Majestynmod:poss
6MajestymajestyNOUNNumber=Sing4 pleaseobj
7,,PUNCT_4 pleasepunct
8”"PUNCT_4 pleasepunct
9saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10TwotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card9 saidnsubj
11,,PUNCT_16 tonepunct
12ininADP_16 tonecase
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 tonedet
14veryveryADV_15 humbleadvmod
15humblehumbleADJDegree=Pos16 toneamod
16tonetoneNOUNNumber=Sing9 saidobl
17,,PUNCT_18 goingpunct
18goinggoVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part9 saidadvcl
19downdownADV_18 goingadvmod
20ononADP_22 kneecase
21oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card22 kneenummod
22kneekneeNOUNNumber=Sing18 goingobl
23asasSCONJ_25 spokemark
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 spokensubj
25spokespeakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 goingadvcl
26,,PUNCT_30 tryingpunct
27“"PUNCT_30 tryingpunct
28wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs30 tryingnsubj
29werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 tryingaux
30tryingtryVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part9 saidparataxis
31—-PUNCT_30 tryingpunct
32”"PUNCT_30 tryingpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1please in a quotemaytreeyour Majestyvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus majesty=Experiencer
2say speech: assertpastTwoa humble tonevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3go downgerundTwo not said hereone kneedown propertyvn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
4speak speech: otherpastKnavevn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5try in a quotepast · progressivewevn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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