Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 85

“Not at all,” said Alice: “she’s so extremely—” Just then she noticed that the Queen was close behind her, listening: so she went on, “—likely to win, that it’s hardly worth while finishing the game.”

Who acts: Alice, Queen, more · What happens: say, notice, be, listen, go on, win · To what, where: game · 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 (Alice, Queen, more), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 all	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 all	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 all	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 ’s	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 ’s	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ’s	nsubj
12	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 noticed	parataxis
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 extremely	advmod
14	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	12 ’s	advmod
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	12 ’s	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 ’s	punct
17	Just	just	ADV	_	20 noticed	advmod
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 noticed	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 noticed	nsubj
20	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 her	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Queen	det
23	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 her	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 her	cop
25	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 her	advmod
26	behind	behind	ADP	_	27 her	case
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 noticed	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 listening	punct
29	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 noticed	ccomp
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 went	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	33 went	advmod
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 went	nsubj
33	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
34	on	on	ADV	_	33 went	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 likely	punct
36	“	"	PUNCT	_	38 likely	punct
37	—	-	PUNCT	_	38 likely	punct
38	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 went	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 win	mark
40	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 likely	xcomp
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 worth	punct
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 worth	mark
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 worth	nsubj
44	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 worth	cop
45	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	46 worth	advmod
46	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 went	parataxis
47	while	while	SCONJ	_	48 finishing	mark
48	finishing	finish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 worth	advcl
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 game	det
50	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 finishing	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
52	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Alice				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	notice	past	Alice		then		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	is	past	the Queen			behind Queen; close property	tree rules
4	listen	gerund					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	go on	past	Queen				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	win in a quote	to-infinitive	Queen not said here				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is in a quote	present	more			hardly, worth property	tree rules
8	finish in a quote	gerund	more not said here	the game			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality game=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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