Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 72
“But what did the Dormouse say?” one of the jury asked.
Who acts: Dormouse · What happens: say, ask · To what, where: one · 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 | _ | 7 say | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 say | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 say | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Dormouse | det |
| 6 | Dormouse | Dormouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 say | nsubj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 one | parataxis |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 asked | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 jury | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 jury | det |
| 13 | jury | jury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obl |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past · do-support | the Dormouse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | one | of the jury | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of jury=Recipient |
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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