Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 54
“Yes, but _I_ grow at a reasonable pace,” said the Dormouse: “not in that ridiculous fashion.”
Who acts: Dormouse · What happens: grow, 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 (Dormouse), 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 | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 grow | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 grow | cc |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 but | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 grow | nsubj |
| 7 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 grow | nsubj |
| 8 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 pace | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pace | det |
| 11 | reasonable | reasonable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pace | amod |
| 12 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grow | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 grow | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 grow | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Dormouse | det |
| 17 | Dormouse | Dormouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 fashion | punct |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 fashion | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 fashion | case |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 fashion | det |
| 23 | ridiculous | ridiculous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fashion | amod |
| 24 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 fashion | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 fashion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow in a quote | present | the Dormouse = dormouse | at a reasonable pace | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pace=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Dormouse | 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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