Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 44
“I’ve a right to think,” said Alice sharply, for she was beginning to feel a little worried.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: have, think, say, begin, feel · To what, where: right · 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’ve | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 right | det |
| 5 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ’ve | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 think | mark |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 right | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’ve | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’ve | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 beginning | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 beginning | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 beginning | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 beginning | aux |
| 17 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 feel | mark |
| 19 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 beginning | xcomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 little | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 worried | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 feel | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Alice | a right | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | a right not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Alice | sharply property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | begin | past · progressive | Alice | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | feel | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | worried property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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