Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 81

“Stuff and nonsense!” said Alice loudly.

Who acts: Stuff · What happens: say · 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 (Stuff), 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	_	2 Stuff	punct
2	Stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 nonsense	cc
4	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Stuff	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Stuff	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Stuff	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Stuff and nonsense					loudly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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