Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 61

“Thank you,” said Alice, “it’s very interesting.

Who acts: Alice · What happens: thank, say, be · To what, where: you · 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	_	2 Thank	punct
2	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Thank	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 interesting	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 interesting	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 interesting	expl
11	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 interesting	cop
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 interesting	advmod
13	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	parataxis
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	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	say speech: assert	past	Alice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present			interesting property	tree rules

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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