Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 68
“Oh, hush!” the Rabbit whispered in a frightened tone.
Who acts: hush · What happens: whisper · To what, where: frightened tone
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hush | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 hush | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | hush | hush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 whispered | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 hush | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hush | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Rabbit | det |
| 8 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 whispered | nsubj |
| 9 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 tone | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tone | det |
| 12 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tone | amod |
| 13 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 whispered | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | hush | a frightened tone | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tone=Location |
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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