Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 60
Hush!” said the Rabbit in a low, hurried tone.
Who acts: Hush · What happens: say, hurry · To what, where: Rabbit, low hurried tone · 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 (Hush), 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 | Hush | hush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hush | punct |
| 3 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hush | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Rabbit | det |
| 6 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tone | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tone | det |
| 9 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tone | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 low | punct |
| 11 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 tone | amod |
| 12 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Rabbit | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Hush | the Rabbit | a low hurried tone | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme in tone=Manner | |||
| 2 | hurry in a quote | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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