Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 66
“I didn’t!” the March Hare interrupted in a great hurry.
Who acts: King, March Hare · What happens: not do, interrupt · To what, where: great hurry · 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, March Hare), 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 did | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 interrupted | ccomp |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 did | advmod |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Hare | det |
| 8 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Hare | compound |
| 9 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 interrupted | nsubj |
| 10 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hurry | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hurry | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hurry | amod |
| 14 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 interrupted | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 interrupted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | past | the King = king | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | interrupt | past | the March Hare | a great hurry | tree rules |
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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