Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 65
“I’m a poor man,” the Hatter went on, “and most things twinkled after that—only the March Hare said—”
Who acts: King, Hatter, most things · What happens: be, go on, twinkle, say · To what, where: poor man, most things · 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 (King, Hatter, most things), 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 | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’m | nsubj |
| 3 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ’m | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Hatter | det |
| 10 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 things | cc |
| 16 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 things | amod |
| 17 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 said | nsubj |
| 18 | twinkled | twinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 things | acl |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 that | case |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 twinkled | obl |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Hare | punct |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 Hare | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Hare | det |
| 24 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Hare | compound |
| 25 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | parataxis |
| 27 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | the King = king | a poor man | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go on | past | the Hatter | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | twinkle in a quote | participle | most things not said here | after most things | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | most things | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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