Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 24
“He might bite,” Alice cautiously replied, not feeling at all anxious to have the experiment tried.
Who acts: reason, Alice, experiment · What happens: bite, reply, not feel, have, try · To what, where: all · 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 (reason, Alice, experiment), 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 | _ | 4 bite | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bite | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bite | aux |
| 4 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 replied | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bite | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bite | punct |
| 7 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | cautiously | cautiously | ADV | _ | 9 replied | advmod |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 feeling | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 feeling | advmod |
| 12 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 replied | advcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 all | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 feeling | obj |
| 15 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 all | amod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 have | mark |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 feeling | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 experiment | det |
| 19 | experiment | experiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tried | nsubj |
| 20 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 have | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite in a quote | might | reason | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Alice | cautiously property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not feel | gerund | Alice not said here | all | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | try | past | the experiment | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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