Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 34
“It isn’t directed at all,” said the White Rabbit; “in fact, there’s nothing written on the _outside_.”
Who acts: White Rabbit · What happens: not direct, say, write · To what, where: paper, all, _ · 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), 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 directed | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 directed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 directed | aux:pass |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 directed | advmod |
| 5 | directed | direct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 directed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 directed | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 directed | 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 | _ | 20 ’s | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 ’s | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 fact | case |
| 17 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ’s | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fact | punct |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 ’s | expl |
| 20 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 ’s | obj |
| 22 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 nothing | acl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 _ | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 _ | det |
| 25 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 written | obl |
| 26 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 25 _ | advmod |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 ’s | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not direct in a quote | present · passive | paper | all | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: subject=Theme at all=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the White Rabbit | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | write in a quote | participle | the _ | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on _=Destination |
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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