Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 35
He unfolded the paper as he spoke, and added “It isn’t a letter, after all: it’s a set of verses.”
Who acts: Rabbit, paper · What happens: unfold, speak, add, not be · To what, where: paper, letter · 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 (Rabbit, paper), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 unfolded | nsubj |
| 2 | unfolded | unfold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 paper | det |
| 4 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 unfolded | obj |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 spoke | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 spoke | nsubj |
| 7 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 unfolded | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 added | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 added | cc |
| 10 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 unfolded | parataxis |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 letter | punct |
| 12 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 letter | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 letter | cop |
| 14 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 letter | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 letter | det |
| 16 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 added | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 all | punct |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 all | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 added | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 ’s | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ’s | nsubj |
| 22 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 unfolded | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 set | det |
| 24 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ’s | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 verses | case |
| 26 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 set | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 ’s | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 unfolded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unfold | past | Rabbit | the paper | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | Rabbit | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | past | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | not is a in a quote | present | paper | a letter | tree rules |
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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