Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 76

They’re dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is, that there’s any one left alive!”

Who acts: players, great wonder · What happens: 're, be, leave · To what, where: one

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 (players, great wonder), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ’re	nsubj
2	’re	're	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	_	4 fond	advmod
4	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ’re	xcomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 people	case
6	beheading	beheading	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 people	compound
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fond	obl
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 people	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 is	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wonder	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wonder	amod
12	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 is	nsubj
13	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ’re	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ’s	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 ’s	mark
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 ’s	expl
17	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ’re	parataxis
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ’s	obj
20	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 one	acl
21	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 left	xcomp
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 one	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 ’s	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	're	past	players = player		fond property	tree rules
2	be	present	the great wonder			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	participle		any one not said here	alive property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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