Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 61

He looked anxiously over his shoulder as he spoke, and then raised himself upon tiptoe, put his mouth close to her ear, and whispered “She’s under sentence of execution.”

Who acts: Hush, Alice · What happens: look, speak, raise, put, whisper, be · To what, where: Hush, tiptoe, mouth, sentence · 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, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	_	2 looked	advmod
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 shoulder	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shoulder	nmod:poss
6	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 spoke	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spoke	nsubj
9	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 raised	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 raised	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 raised	advmod
13	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 raised	obj
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 tiptoe	case
16	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 raised	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 put	punct
18	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 raised	advcl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mouth	nmod:poss
20	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obj
21	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 put	xcomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 ear	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 ear	nmod:poss
24	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 close	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 whispered	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 whispered	cc
27	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 sentence	punct
29	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sentence	nsubj
30	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 sentence	cop
31	under	under	ADP	_	32 sentence	case
32	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 whispered	ccomp
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 execution	case
34	execution	execution	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sentence	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 sentence	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 sentence	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	Hush				over Hush's shoulder; anxiously property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over shoulder=Theme
2	speak speech: other	past	Hush					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	raise	past	Hush not said here	Hush	tiptoe	then		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme upon tiptoe=Destination
4	put	infinitive	Hush not said here	Hush's mouth			close property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mouth=Goal
5	whisper speech: assert	past						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	present	Alice		sentence		of execution	tree rules

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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