Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 43
“Thinking again?” the Duchess asked, with another dig of her sharp little chin.
Who acts: Duchess · What happens: think, ask · 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 (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 | _ | 2 Thinking | punct |
| 2 | Thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 Thinking | advmod |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thinking | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thinking | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Duchess | det |
| 7 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dig | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 dig | case |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 dig | det |
| 12 | dig | dig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 chin | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 chin | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 chin | amod |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 chin | amod |
| 17 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dig | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | gerund | again | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Duchess | with another dig of Duchess's sharp little chin | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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