Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 36
“That’s nothing to what I could say if I chose,” the Duchess replied, in a pleased tone.
Who acts: That, Duchess · What happens: be, say, choose, reply · To what, where: nothing, pleased tone · 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 (That, Duchess), 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 nothing | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 nothing | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nothing | cop |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 what | case |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 say | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 say | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 say | aux |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 chose | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 chose | nsubj |
| 12 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 say | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 say | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 say | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Duchess | det |
| 16 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 replied | nsubj |
| 17 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 say | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tone | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 tone | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tone | det |
| 21 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tone | amod |
| 22 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 replied | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | could | the Duchess = duchess | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | choose a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | the Duchess = duchess | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | the Duchess | a pleased tone | vn respond-113 «NP V»: 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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