Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 32
“Oh, I know!” exclaimed Alice, who had not attended to this last remark, “it’s a vegetable.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: know, exclaim, not attend · 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 (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 exclaimed | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 know | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 attended | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 attended | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 attended | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 attended | advmod |
| 14 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 Alice | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 remark | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 remark | det |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 remark | amod |
| 18 | remark | remark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 attended | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ’s | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 ’s | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ’s | nsubj |
| 22 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 exclaimed | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 vegetable | det |
| 24 | vegetable | vegetable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ’s | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | Alice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | Alice | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not attend | past · perfect | Alice | to this last remark | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to remark=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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