Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 49

“Yes,” said Alice, “I’ve often seen them at dinn—” she checked herself hastily.

Who acts: Alice · What happens: say, see, check · To what, where: England, dinn, Alice · 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), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seen	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 seen	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 seen	nsubj
10	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	aux
11	often	often	ADV	_	12 seen	advmod
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seen	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 dinn	case
15	dinn	dinn	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 seen	obl
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 checked	nsubj
19	checked	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
20	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 checked	obj
21	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	19 checked	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Alice				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see in a quote	present · perfect	Alice	England	dinn	often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	check	past	Alice	Alice		hastily property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=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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