Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 84
“I can’t go no lower,” said the Hatter: “I’m on the floor, as it is.”
Who acts: Hatter, floor · What happens: not go, say, be · To what, where: floor · 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 (Hatter, floor), 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 | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 lower | advmod |
| 7 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 go | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Hatter | det |
| 12 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 ’m | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 ’m | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 ’m | nsubj |
| 16 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 floor | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 floor | det |
| 19 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ’m | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 is | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 is | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 is | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 ’m | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go in a quote | can | the Hatter = hatter | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Hatter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | the Hatter = hatter | the floor | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | floor | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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