Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 35
“Fourteenth of March, I _think_ it was,” he said.
Who acts: Fourteenth, Hatter · What happens: think, be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fourteenth, Hatter), 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 Fourteenth | punct |
| 2 | Fourteenth | fourteenth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 think | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 March | case |
| 4 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fourteenth | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fourteenth | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 think | nsubj |
| 7 | _ | _ | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | aux |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 was | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | Fourteenth of March | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | be in a quote | past | Fourteenth | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Hatter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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