Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 47

“You shan’t be beheaded!” said Alice, and she put them into a large flower-pot that stood near.

Who acts: Alice, large flower pot · What happens: not behead, say, put, stand · To what, where: You, gardeners, large flower pot · 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 (Alice, large flower pot), 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	_	6 beheaded	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 beheaded	nsubj:pass
3	sha	sha	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 beheaded	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 beheaded	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 beheaded	aux:pass
6	beheaded	behead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	ccomp
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 beheaded	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 beheaded	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 put	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 put	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 put	nsubj
14	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 put	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	21 pot	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pot	det
18	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pot	amod
19	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pot	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 flower	punct
21	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 stood	nsubj
23	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 pot	acl:relcl
24	near	near	ADV	_	23 stood	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not behead in a quote	passive		You			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	say speech: express	past	Alice				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	put	past	Alice	gardeners = gardener	a large flower pot		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal
4	stand	past	a large flower pot			near property	vn assuming_position-50 «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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