Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 114
“I never heard of ‘Uglification,’” Alice ventured to say.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: not hear, venture, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice), 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 heard | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 heard | advmod |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Uglification | case |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Uglification | punct |
| 7 | Uglification | uglification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 11 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ventured | nsubj |
| 12 | ventured | venture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 say | mark |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ventured | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear in a quote | past | Alice | of Uglification | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of uglification=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | venture | past | Alice | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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