Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 15

“important—unimportant—unimportant—important—” as if he were trying which word sounded best.

Who acts: King, word · What happens: try, sound

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, word), 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	_	2 important	punct
2	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	—	-	PUNCT	_	4 unimportant	punct
4	unimportant	unimportant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 important	conj
5	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 unimportant	punct
6	unimportant	unimportant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 important	conj
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	8 important	punct
8	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 important	conj
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	2 important	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 important	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 trying	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 trying	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 trying	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 trying	aux
15	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 important	parataxis
16	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	17 word	det
17	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sounded	nsubj
18	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 trying	parataxis
19	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	18 sounded	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 important	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · progressive	King						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	sound	past	which word					well property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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