Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 5
On which Seven looked up and said, “That’s right, Five!
Who acts: Seven, That · What happens: look up, say, be · 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 (Seven, That), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 which | case |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 looked | obl |
| 3 | Seven | Seven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 looked | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 right | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 right | punct |
| 10 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 right | nsubj |
| 11 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 right | cop |
| 12 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Five | punct |
| 14 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 right | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | Seven | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on which=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Seven not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | That | Five obl; right property | tree rules |
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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