Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 122
Alice did not feel encouraged to ask any more questions about it, so she turned to the Mock Turtle, and said “What else had you to learn?”
Who acts: Alice, you · What happens: not feel, encourage, ask, turn, say, have · To what, where: more questions, you · 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, you), 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 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 feel | advmod |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | encouraged | encourage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 feel | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 ask | mark |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 encouraged | xcomp |
| 8 | any | any | ADV | _ | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 questions | amod |
| 10 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ask | obj |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 questions | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 turned | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turned | nsubj |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Turtle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Turtle | det |
| 19 | Mock | Mock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Turtle | compound |
| 20 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 turned | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | conj |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
| 25 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 had | nsubj |
| 26 | else | else | ADV | _ | 25 What | advmod |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | ccomp |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 had | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 learn | mark |
| 30 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 had | xcomp |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feel | past · do-support | Alice | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | encourage | participle | Alice not said here | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask not said to happen | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | more questions | about question | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent question=Recipient about it=Topic | |||
| 4 | turn | past | Alice | to the Mock Turtle result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to turtle=Result | ||||
| 5 | say speech: ask | past | Alice not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | have in a quote | past | you | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | learn in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: 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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