Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 120
“Yes,” said Alice doubtfully: “it means—to—make—anything—prettier.”
Who acts: Alice, it · What happens: say, mean, make · To what, where: anything · 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, it), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | doubtfully | doubtfully | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 means | nsubj |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 means | ccomp |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 anything | punct |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 make | obj |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 prettier | punct |
| 19 | prettier | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 anything | amod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Alice | doubtfully property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present | it | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | anything | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset anything=Product |
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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