Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 74
“Everybody says ‘come on!’ here,” thought Alice, as she went slowly after it: “I never was so ordered about in all my life, never!”
Who acts: Everybody, Alice · What happens: say, come on, think, go, not order · To what, where: Alice · 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 (Everybody, 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 | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 2 | Everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 come | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 13 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 went | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | conj |
| 18 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 ordered | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 ordered | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 ordered | nsubj |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 ordered | advmod |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 ordered | aux:pass |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 ordered | advmod |
| 27 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 says | ccomp |
| 28 | about | about | ADP | _ | 32 life | case |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 life | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 life | det:predet |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 life | nmod:poss |
| 32 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ordered | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 never | punct |
| 34 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 ordered | advmod |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 34 never | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Everybody | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come on in a quote | infinitive | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Alice | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | past | Alice | after mustard | slowly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | not order in a quote | past · passive | Alice | about my life | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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