Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 115
Alice did not dare to disobey, though she felt sure it would all come wrong, and she went on in a trembling voice:—
Who acts: Alice, verse · What happens: not dare, not disobey, feel, come, go on · To what, where: trembling voice
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, verse), 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 | 4 dare | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dare | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 dare | advmod |
| 4 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 disobey | mark |
| 6 | disobey | disobey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dare | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 felt | punct |
| 8 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 10 felt | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 felt | nsubj |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dare | conj |
| 11 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 felt | xcomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 come | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 come | advmod |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sure | ccomp |
| 16 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 come | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dare | parataxis |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 went | compound:prt |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 voice | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 voice | det |
| 24 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 voice | compound |
| 25 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 27 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 dare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dare | past · do-support | Alice | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not disobey | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | feel | past | Alice | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come | would | verse | all, wrong property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go on | past | Alice | a trembling voice | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in voice=Location |
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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