Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 87
“Who _are_ you talking to?” said the King, going up to Alice, and looking at the Cat’s head with great curiosity.
Who acts: you, King · What happens: be, talk, say, go up, look · To what, where: Alice · 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, King), 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 talking | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 talking | obl |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Who | punct |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Who | cop |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Who | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 talking | nsubj |
| 7 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 said | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 talking | fixed |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 talking | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 talking | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 going | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Alice | case |
| 18 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 going | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 looking | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 looking | cc |
| 21 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 head | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Cat | det |
| 24 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 head | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Cat | case |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 looking | obl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 curiosity | case |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 curiosity | amod |
| 29 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 looking | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | talk in a quote | gerund | you | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go up | gerund | the King not said here | Alice | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | look | gerund | the King not said here | with great curiosity; at the Cat's head | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at head=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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