Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 66
“She boxed the Queen’s ears—” the Rabbit began.
Who acts: Alice, Rabbit · What happens: box, begin · To what, where: ears · 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, Rabbit), 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 | _ | 3 boxed | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 boxed | nsubj |
| 3 | boxed | box | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ears | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Queen | case |
| 7 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 boxed | obj |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 boxed | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 boxed | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Rabbit | det |
| 11 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 began | nsubj |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 boxed | parataxis |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 boxed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | box in a quote | past | Alice | the Queen's ears | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the Rabbit | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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