Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 89
“I’d rather finish my tea,” said the Hatter, with an anxious look at the Queen, who was reading the list of singers.
Who acts: Hatter, anxious look · What happens: finish, say, read, list · To what, where: tea, list, singers · 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, anxious look), 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 finish | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 finish | nsubj |
| 3 | ’d | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finish | aux |
| 4 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 5 finish | advmod |
| 5 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tea | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finish | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 finish | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 finish | 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 | _ | 17 look | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 look | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 look | det |
| 16 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 look | amod |
| 17 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Hatter | appos |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 Queen | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Queen | det |
| 20 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 look | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 reading | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 reading | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 reading | aux |
| 24 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 look | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 list | det |
| 26 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 reading | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 singers | case |
| 28 | singers | singer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 list | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish in a quote | past | the Hatter = hatter | my tea | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector tea=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Hatter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | read | past · progressive | a anxious look at the Queen | the list of singers | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Topic | ||||
| 4 | list | singers | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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