Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 111

It quite makes my forehead ache!”

Who acts: witness, my · What happens: make, ache · To what, where: forehead ache

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witness, my), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 makes	nsubj
2	quite	quite	ADV	_	3 makes	advmod
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ache	nmod:poss
5	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ache	compound
6	ache	ache	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 makes	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 makes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	witness	my forehead ache					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material ache=Product
2	ache		my						nom ache «state intransitive»: poss=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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