Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 89
“I don’t like the look of it at all,” said the King: “however, it may kiss my hand if it likes.”
Who acts: King, look · What happens: not like, say, kiss, like · To what, where: look, all, hand · 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 (King, look), 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 | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 like | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 like | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 look | det |
| 7 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 like | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 look | nmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 all | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 look | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 kiss | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 kiss | punct |
| 19 | however | however | ADV | _ | 23 kiss | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 however | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 kiss | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 kiss | aux |
| 23 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hand | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kiss | obj |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 likes | mark |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 likes | nsubj |
| 28 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 kiss | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 kiss | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 kiss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like in a quote | present · do-support | the King = king | the look of look | all | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot look=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | kiss in a quote | may | look | my hand | however property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | look | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/89/