Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 8
“I heard the Queen say only yesterday you deserved to be beheaded!”
Who acts: Seven, Queen, you · What happens: hear, say, deserve, behead · To what, where: yesterday · 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 (Seven, Queen, you), 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 heard | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | ccomp |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 yesterday | advmod |
| 8 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | obj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 deserved | nsubj |
| 10 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 yesterday | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 beheaded | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 beheaded | aux:pass |
| 13 | beheaded | behead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 deserved | xcomp |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | past | Seven | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | the Queen | yesterday | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | deserve in a quote | past | you | yesterday not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | behead in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | you not said here | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |
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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