Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 71

“Get to your places!” shouted the Queen in a voice of thunder, and people began running about in all directions, tumbling up against each other; however, they got settled down in a minute or two, and the game began.

Who acts: Queen, people, game · What happens: get, shout, begin, run about, tumble up, settle down · To what, where: voice, directions, people · 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 (Queen, people, game), 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	_	2 Get	punct
2	Get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 shouted	ccomp
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 places	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 places	nmod:poss
5	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Get	obl
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Get	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Get	punct
8	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Queen	det
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 shouted	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 voice	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 voice	det
13	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shouted	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 thunder	case
15	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 voice	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 began	cc
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 began	nsubj
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shouted	parataxis
20	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 began	xcomp
21	about	about	ADV	_	20 running	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 directions	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 directions	det
24	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 running	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tumbling	punct
26	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 running	conj
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 tumbling	compound:prt
28	against	against	ADP	_	29 each	case
29	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	26 tumbling	obl
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 each	fixed
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 settled	punct
32	however	however	ADV	_	36 settled	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 however	punct
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 settled	nsubj:pass
35	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 settled	aux:pass
36	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 began	conj
37	down	down	ADP	_	36 settled	compound:prt
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 minute	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 minute	det
40	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 settled	obl
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 two	cc
42	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 minute	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 began	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 began	cc
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 game	det
46	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 began	nsubj
47	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 settled	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 shouted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	infinitive					to your places result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result
2	shout speech: express	past	the Queen		a voice of thunder			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	begin	past	people					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	run about	gerund	people not said here		all directions		about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory
5	tumble up	gerund	people not said here				against each	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	settle down	past · passive		people		minute	however property	tree rules
7	begin	past	the game					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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