Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 50
“Their heads are gone, if it please your Majesty!” the soldiers shouted in reply.
Who acts: heads, ten, gone soldiers · What happens: be, majesty, shout · To what, where: reply · 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 (heads, ten, gone soldiers), 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 gone | punct |
| 2 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 heads | nmod:poss |
| 3 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | cop |
| 5 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 soldiers | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Majesty | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 Majesty | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 Majesty | nsubj |
| 9 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 11 Majesty | discourse |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 soldiers | det |
| 15 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shouted | nsubj |
| 16 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 reply | case |
| 18 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shouted | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | soldiers's heads | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | majesty a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | ten | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | past | the gone soldiers | reply | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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