Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 9
“Perhaps it hasn’t one,” Alice ventured to remark.
Who acts: moral, Alice · What happens: have, venture, remark · To what, where: one · 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 (moral, 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 | _ | 4 has | punct |
| 2 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 has | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 one | advmod |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| 9 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ventured | nsubj |
| 10 | ventured | venture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 remark | mark |
| 12 | remark | remark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ventured | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | moral | one | perhaps property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | venture | past | Alice | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | remark speech: assert | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | vn lecture-37.11-1 «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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