Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 70

“Well, at any rate, the Dormouse said—” the Hatter went on, looking anxiously round to see if he would deny it too: but the Dormouse denied nothing, being fast asleep.

Who acts: Dormouse, Hatter · What happens: say, go on, look, see, deny, be · To what, where: rate, nothing · 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, 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	_	10 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	10 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rate	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 rate	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 rate	det
6	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Well	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Dormouse	det
9	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Hatter	det
14	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
16	on	on	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looking	punct
18	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 went	advcl
19	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	_	20 round	advmod
20	round	round	ADV	_	18 looking	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 see	mark
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 looking	advcl
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 deny	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 deny	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 deny	aux
26	deny	deny	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 see	ccomp
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 deny	obj
28	too	too	ADV	_	26 deny	advmod
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 denied	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 denied	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Dormouse	det
32	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 denied	nsubj
33	denied	deny	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	33 denied	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 fast	punct
36	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 fast	cop
37	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 denied	advmod
38	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 fast	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the Dormouse			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go on	past	the Hatter			vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	gerund	the Hatter not said here		round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	see	to-infinitive	the Hatter not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	deny a condition, not said to happen	would	Hatter	rate		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	deny	past	the Dormouse	nothing		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
7	is	gerund			fast property	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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