Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 91
“Don’t be impertinent,” said the King, “and don’t look at me like that!”
Who acts: King · What happens: not be, say, not look · 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), 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 impertinent | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 impertinent | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 impertinent | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 impertinent | cop |
| 5 | impertinent | impertinent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 impertinent | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 impertinent | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 look | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 look | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 look | cc |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 look | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 look | advmod |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 look | obl |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 that | case |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 look | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 look | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | infinitive · do-support | impertinent property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not look in a quote | infinitive · do-support | at the King = king; like that | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=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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