Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 81
“I’m glad I’ve seen that done,” thought Alice.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: be, see, do, think · 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 (Alice), 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 | root | root |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ’m | ccomp |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 seen | nsubj |
| 6 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | aux |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 glad | ccomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 thought | mark |
| 9 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 thought | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 done | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 done | punct |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | advcl |
| 13 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | Alice | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present · perfect | Alice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | participle | Alice not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | Alice | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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