Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 131
“And how many hours a day did you do lessons?” said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
Who acts: many hours, Alice · What happens: do, say, change · To what, where: lessons, hurry, subject · 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 (many hours, 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 | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hours | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 many | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hours | amod |
| 5 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 do | nsubj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hours | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | parataxis |
| 11 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 do | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hurry | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 hurry | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hurry | det |
| 19 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 change | mark |
| 21 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 hurry | acl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 subject | det |
| 23 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 change | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past · do-support | many hours a day | lessons | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Alice | a hurry | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | change | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | the subject | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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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