Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 100
However, she got up, and began to repeat it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:—
Who acts: Alice, head, words · What happens: get up, begin, repeat, be, know, say · To what, where: school · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, head, words), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 got | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 repeat | mark |
| 10 | repeat | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 repeat | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 full | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 full | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 full | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 full | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 full | advmod |
| 18 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Quadrille | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Quadrille | det |
| 21 | Lobster | Lobster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Quadrille | compound |
| 22 | Quadrille | Quadrille | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 full | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 knew | punct |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 knew | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 knew | nsubj |
| 26 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 27 knew | advmod |
| 27 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | parataxis |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 saying | obj |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 saying | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 saying | aux |
| 31 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 knew | ccomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 came | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 came | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 words | det |
| 35 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 came | nsubj |
| 36 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 37 | very | very | ADV | _ | 38 queer | advmod |
| 38 | queer | queer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 came | advcl |
| 39 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 38 queer | advmod |
| 40 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 41 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | Alice | however property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | Alice not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | repeat | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | school | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Alice's head | of the Lobster Quadrille; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know | past | Alice | hardly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past · progressive | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 7 | come | past | the words | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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