Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 52
“Can you play croquet?”
Who acts: you · What happens: play · To what, where: croquet
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 (you), 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 | _ | 4 play | punct |
| 2 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 play | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 play | nsubj |
| 4 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | croquet | croquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 play | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 play | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play in a quote | can | you | croquet | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent croquet=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/52/