Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 17
“Somebody said,” Alice whispered, “that it’s done by everybody minding their own business!”
Who acts: Somebody, Alice, everybody · What happens: say, whisper, do, mind · To what, where: world, own business · 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 (Somebody, Alice, everybody), 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 | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 2 | Somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 6 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 whispered | nsubj |
| 7 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 done | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 done | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 done | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 done | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 done | aux:pass |
| 13 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 whispered | ccomp |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 everybody | case |
| 15 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 done | obl:agent |
| 16 | minding | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 everybody | acl |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 business | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 business | amod |
| 19 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 minding | obj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 done | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Somebody | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | whisper speech: express | past | Alice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present · passive | everybody | world | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | mind in a quote | gerund | children's own business | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Theme |
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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