Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 55

“Come on, then!” roared the Queen, and Alice joined the procession, wondering very much what would happen next.

Who acts: Alice · What happens: come on, roar, join, wonder, happen · To what, where: Queen, procession · 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), 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	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 roared	ccomp
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 then	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Come	advmod
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
8	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Queen	det
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 roared	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 joined	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 joined	cc
13	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 joined	nsubj
14	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 roared	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 procession	det
16	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 joined	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wondering	punct
18	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 joined	advcl
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADV	_	21 what	advmod
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 happen	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 happen	aux
23	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wondering	ccomp
24	next	next	ADV	_	23 happen	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 roared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come on in a quote	infinitive			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	roar	past		the Queen			tree rules
3	join	past	Alice	the procession			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent procession=Patient
4	wonder speech: ask	gerund	Alice not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	happen	would				next property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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