Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 6
Always lay the blame on others!”
Who acts: you · What happens: lay · To what, where: blame, others
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 | Always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 2 lay | advmod |
| 2 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 blame | det |
| 4 | blame | blame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 others | case |
| 6 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lay | obl |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | imperative | you not said here | the blame | others | always property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blame=Theme on other=Destination |
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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