Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 69
“Does the boots and shoes!” she repeated in a wondering tone.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: do, repeat · To what, where: boots, wondering tone · 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 Does | punct |
| 2 | Does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boots | det |
| 4 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Does | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 shoes | cc |
| 6 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 boots | conj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 boots | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Does | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 repeated | nsubj |
| 10 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Does | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tone | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tone | det |
| 13 | wondering | wondering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tone | compound |
| 14 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 repeated | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | the boots and shoes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | repeat | participle | Alice | a wondering tone | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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