Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 97

The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small.

Who acts: Queen, one way · What happens: have, settle · To what, where: one way, difficulties

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 (Queen, one way), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 one	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 way	nummod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 settling	mark
8	settling	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 way	acl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 difficulties	det
10	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 settling	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 great	punct
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 difficulties	amod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 small	cc
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 great	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Queen	one way					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
2	settle	gerund	one way not said here	all difficulties					vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme difficulty=Location

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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