Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 95

“Well, it must be removed,” said the King very decidedly, and he called the Queen, who was passing at the moment, “My dear!

Who acts: King, Cat, Queen · What happens: remove, say, call, pass · To what, where: book · 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, Cat, Queen), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 removed	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 removed	nsubj:pass
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 removed	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 removed	aux:pass
7	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 removed	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 removed	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 decidedly	advmod
14	decidedly	decidedly	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 called	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 called	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 called	nsubj
18	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Queen	det
20	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 called	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 passing	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 passing	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 passing	aux
24	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 Queen	acl
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 moment	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 moment	det
27	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 passing	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dear	punct
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 dear	punct
30	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 dear	nmod:poss
31	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 called	parataxis
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	remove in a quote	must · passive		book			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the King			decidedly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	call speech: assert	past	Cat				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pass	past · progressive	the Queen		moment		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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