Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 135

This was quite a new idea to Alice, and she thought it over a little before she made her next remark.

Who acts: This, Alice · What happens: be, think, make, remark · To what, where: new idea, Alice, idea, little, next remark

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 (This, 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 idea	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 idea	cop
3	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	6 idea	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 idea	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 idea	amod
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Alice	case
8	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 idea	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thought	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	nsubj
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 idea	acl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	obj
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 little	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 little	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thought	obl
17	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 made	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 made	nsubj
19	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thought	ccomp
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 remark	nmod:poss
21	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 remark	amod
22	remark	remark	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 made	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 idea	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	This	quite new idea	Alice		tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	Alice	idea		a little	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme
3	make	past	Alice	Alice's next remark			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remark=Product
4	remark		Alice				nom remark «communication transitive»: poss=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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