Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 47

“Thank you, it’s a very interesting dance to watch,” said Alice, feeling very glad that it was over at last: “and I do so like that curious song about the whiting!”

Who acts: shore, Alice · What happens: thank, be, watch, say, feel, do · To what, where: you, interesting dance, last · 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 (shore, 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	_	2 Thank	punct
2	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Thank	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dance	nsubj
6	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dance	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dance	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 interesting	advmod
9	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dance	amod
10	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Thank	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 watch	mark
12	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 dance	acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 feeling	punct
18	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 said	advcl
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 glad	advmod
20	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 feeling	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 over	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 over	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 over	cop
24	over	over	ADV	_	20 glad	ccomp
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 last	case
26	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 feeling	obl
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 do	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 do	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 do	cc
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 do	nsubj
31	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
32	so	so	ADV	_	36 song	advmod
33	like	like	ADP	_	36 song	case
34	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 song	det
35	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 song	amod
36	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 do	obl
37	about	about	ADP	_	39 whiting	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 whiting	det
39	whiting	whiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 song	nmod
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 song	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			you			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	shore	a interesting dance				tree rules
3	watch in a quote	to-infinitive						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: express	past	Alice					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	feel	gerund	Alice not said here			last		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location
6	is	past	shore				over property	tree rules
7	do in a quote	present	Alice				like that curious song about the whiting	vn act-114-1 «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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