Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 31

“I haven’t opened it yet,” said the White Rabbit, “but it seems to be a letter, written by the prisoner to—to somebody.”

Who acts: White Rabbit, it · What happens: not open, say, seem, be, write · To what, where: White Rabbit, letter, somebody · 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 (White Rabbit, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 opened	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 opened	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 opened	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 opened	advmod
5	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 opened	obj
7	yet	yet	ADV	_	5 opened	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 opened	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 opened	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	13 Rabbit	det
12	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Rabbit	amod
13	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seems	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 seems	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 seems	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seems	nsubj
18	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	22 letter	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 letter	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 letter	det
22	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seems	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 written	punct
24	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 letter	acl
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 prisoner	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 prisoner	det
27	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 written	obl:agent
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 somebody	case
29	—	-	PUNCT	_	31 somebody	punct
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 somebody	case
31	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 written	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 letter	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	not open in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the White Rabbit = rabbit		yet	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme it=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	the White Rabbit				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	seem in a quote	present	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is a in a quote	to-infinitive		a letter			tree rules
5	write in a quote	participle		a letter not said here	somebody		vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to somebody=Recipient

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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