Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 45

“_I_ see!” said the Queen, who had meanwhile been examining the roses.

Who acts: Queen · What happens: see, say, examine · To what, where: roses · 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	_	5 see	punct
2	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
5	see	see	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Queen	det
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 examining	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 examining	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 examining	aux
14	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	16 examining	advmod
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 examining	aux
16	examining	examine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 Queen	acl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 roses	det
18	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 examining	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	infinitive	the Queen = queen			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: express	past	the Queen			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	examine	past · perfect · progressive	the Queen	the roses	meanwhile property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Theme

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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