Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 37
“No, they’re not,” said the White Rabbit, “and that’s the queerest thing about it.”
Who acts: verses, White Rabbit, that · What happens: not be, say, be · To what, where: queerest thing · 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 (verses, White Rabbit, that), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 ’re | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ’re | nsubj |
| 5 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 ’re | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ’re | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ’re | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Rabbit | det |
| 11 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Rabbit | amod |
| 12 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thing | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 thing | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 thing | cc |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 thing | nsubj |
| 17 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 thing | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 thing | det |
| 19 | queerest | queer | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 thing | amod |
| 20 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Rabbit | appos |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thing | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not does in a quote | present | verses = verse | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the White Rabbit | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | that | the queerest thing | about thing | 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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