Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 65
“—_said I could not swim_—” you can’t swim, can you?” he added, turning to the Knave.
Who acts: I, you, King · What happens: say, not swim, add, turn · 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 (I, you, King), 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 | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 2 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 swim | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 swim | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 swim | advmod |
| 8 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 swim | punct |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 swim | nsubj |
| 13 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 swim | aux |
| 14 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 swim | advmod |
| 15 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 can | punct |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 swim | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 can | nsubj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 swim | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 added | nsubj |
| 22 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 turning | punct |
| 24 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 added | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Knave | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Knave | det |
| 27 | Knave | Knave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 turning | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | not swim in a quote | could | I | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not swim | can | you | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | add speech: assert in a quote | past | King | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | turn in a quote | gerund | King not said here | to the Knave result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to knave=Result |
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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