Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 40

“A cheap sort of present!” thought Alice.

Who acts: cheap sort · What happens: think, sort · To what, where: Alice, present

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 (cheap sort), 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	_	9 thought	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sort	det
3	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sort	amod
4	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thought	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 present	case
6	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sort	nmod
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 sort	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 sort	punct
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 thought	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	a cheap sort of present	Alice					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot alice=Theme
2	sort in a quote			present					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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