Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 99

“I’ll fetch the executioner myself,” said the King eagerly, and he hurried off.

Who acts: King, Cat · What happens: fetch, say, hurry off · To what, where: executioner · 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), 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	_	4 fetch	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 fetch	nsubj
3	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fetch	aux
4	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 executioner	det
6	executioner	executioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fetch	obj
7	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	4 fetch	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fetch	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 fetch	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	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	12 King	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hurried	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hurried	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hurried	nsubj
17	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 hurried	compound:prt
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fetch in a quote	future	the King = king	the executioner	myself obl:unmarked	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent executioner=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the King			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hurry off	past	Cat			vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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