Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 98
“Off with his head!” she said, without even looking round.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: say, look round · 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 (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 | _ | 2 Off | punct |
| 2 | Off | off | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 head | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 head | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 head | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looking | punct |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 13 looking | mark |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 looking | advmod |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 14 | round | round | ADV | _ | 13 looking | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Queen | with Cat's head; off property | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with head=Manner | ||||
| 2 | look round | gerund | Queen not said here | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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