Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 30

“Of course it is,” said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything that Alice said; “there’s a large mustard-mine near here.

Who acts: thing, Duchess, Alice · What happens: be, say, seem, agree · 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 (thing, Duchess, 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	_	8 said	punct
2	Of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	5 is	advmod
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Of	fixed
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 is	nsubj
5	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 is	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 is	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Duchess	det
10	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seemed	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 seemed	nsubj
13	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Duchess	acl:relcl
14	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 seemed	xcomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 agree	mark
16	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ready	xcomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 everything	case
18	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 agree	obl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 said	mark
20	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 everything	acl:relcl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 ’s	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 ’s	punct
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 ’s	expl
25	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 mine	det
27	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 mine	amod
28	mustard	mustard	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 mine	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 mustard	punct
30	mine	mine	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ’s	obj
31	near	near	ADP	_	32 here	case
32	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 ’s	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	thing		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Duchess		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	seem	past	the Duchess	ready property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	agree speech: agree	to-infinitive	the Duchess not said here	to everything	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	Alice		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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