Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 133
“What a curious plan!” exclaimed Alice.
Who acts: curious plan · What happens: exclaim · To what, where: Alice
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 (curious plan), 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 | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 plan | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 plan | det |
| 4 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 plan | amod |
| 5 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 plan | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 plan | punct |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | what curious plan | Alice | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent alice=Topic |
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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