Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 51
“I can’t help it,” said Alice very meekly: “I’m growing.”
Who acts: Alice · What happens: not help, say, be, grow · To what, where: sensation · 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 (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 | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 help | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 help | advmod |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 help | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 meekly | advmod |
| 12 | meekly | meekly | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 ’m | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 ’m | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 ’m | nsubj |
| 16 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 17 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 ’m | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help in a quote | can | Alice | sensation | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Alice | meekly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | Alice | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | grow in a quote | gerund | Alice not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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