Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 23
“It must be a very pretty dance,” said Alice timidly.
Who acts: voice, pretty dance · What happens: be, say · To what, where: pretty dance · 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 (voice, pretty dance), 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 | _ | 8 dance | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dance | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 dance | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 dance | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dance | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 pretty | advmod |
| 7 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dance | amod |
| 8 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dance | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 dance | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | timidly | timidly | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | must | voice | a pretty dance | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a pretty dance | timidly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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