Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 71
“After that,” continued the Hatter, “I cut some more bread-and-butter—”
Who acts: King · What happens: continue, cut · To what, where: Hatter, more bread · 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), 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 | _ | 6 continued | punct |
| 2 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 that | case |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 continued | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 that | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 that | punct |
| 6 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Hatter | det |
| 8 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 continued | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cut | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 cut | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 cut | nsubj |
| 12 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 continued | parataxis |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 bread | det |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 bread | amod |
| 15 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cut | obj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 butter | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 butter | cc |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 and | punct |
| 19 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bread | conj |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 continued | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | the Hatter | after that | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cut in a quote | present | the King = king | some more bread and butter | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Product |
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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