Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 77
Alice asked in a tone of great curiosity.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: ask, intonate · To what, where: tone, great curiosity
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 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 tone | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tone | det |
| 5 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 curiosity | case |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 curiosity | amod |
| 8 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tone | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Alice | a tone of great curiosity | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | intonate | great curiosity | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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