Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 87
“Who cares for you?” said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by this time.)
Who acts: Alice · What happens: care, say, grow · 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 (Alice), 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 | _ | 3 cares | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 cares | nsubj |
| 3 | cares | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 cares | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 cares | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 cares | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grown | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 grown | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 grown | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 grown | aux |
| 14 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 size | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 size | nmod:poss |
| 17 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 size | amod |
| 18 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grown | obl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grown | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 grown | punct |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | care in a quote | present | for you | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for you=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | grow | past · perfect | Alice | time | to Alice's full size | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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