Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 113

Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by the whole thing, and longed to change the subject.

Who acts: Alice, whole thing · What happens: say, puzzle, long, change · To what, where: subject · 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, whole thing), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 puzzled	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 puzzled	cc
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 puzzled	aux:pass
6	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	_	7 puzzled	advmod
7	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	ccomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 thing	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thing	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 puzzled	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 longed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 longed	cc
14	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 change	mark
16	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 longed	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 subject	det
18	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 change	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Alice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	puzzle	past · passive	the whole thing		dreadfully property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	long	past	Alice not said here			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	change not said to happen	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	the subject		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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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