Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 70
You see, she came rather late, and the Queen said—”
Who acts: You, Queen · What happens: see, come, say · 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 (You, Queen), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 see | ccomp |
| 6 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 7 late | advmod |
| 7 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 came | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Queen | det |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 see | parataxis |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | come | past | Queen | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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