Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 17

Alice could see this, as she was near enough to look over their slates; “but it doesn’t matter a bit,” she thought to herself.

Who acts: Alice, it · What happens: see, be, not matter, think · To what, where: this, slates, bit, Alice · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Alice, it), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 see	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 see	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 look	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 look	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 look	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 look	cop
9	near	near	ADV	_	10 enough	advmod
10	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 look	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 look	mark
12	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 see	conj
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 slates	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 slates	nmod:poss
15	slates	slate	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 look	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 matter	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 matter	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 matter	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 matter	nsubj
20	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 matter	aux
21	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 matter	advmod
22	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 see	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bit	det
24	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 matter	obl:unmarked
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bit	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 bit	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 thought	nsubj
28	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 bit	acl:relcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 herself	case
30	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 thought	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	could	Alice	this				tree rules
2	is	past	Alice			slates's slates	enough, look property	tree rules
3	not matter in a quote	present · do-support	it	a bit				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
4	think speech: other	past	Alice	a bit not said here	Alice			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bit=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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