Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 91

“Oh, I’ve had such a curious dream!” said Alice, and she told her sister, as well as she could remember them, all these strange Adventures of hers that you have just been reading about; and when she had finished, her sister kissed her, and said, “It _was_ a curious dream, dear, certainly: but now run in to your tea; it’s getting late.”

Who acts: Alice, strange Adventures, sister, dream · What happens: have, say, tell, remember, read, finish · To what, where: curious dream, sister, leaves, Alice, tea, hers · 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, strange Adventures, sister, dream), 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	_	13 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 ’ve	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 ’ve	nsubj
5	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ’ve	ccomp
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 dream	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dream	det
9	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dream	amod
10	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ’ve	obl:unmarked
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 ’ve	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 ’ve	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	nsubj
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sister	nmod:poss
20	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	iobj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 remember	punct
22	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	27 remember	advmod
23	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 as	fixed
24	as	as	ADP	_	22 as	fixed
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 remember	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 remember	aux
27	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 told	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 remember	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Adventures	punct
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 Adventures	det:predet
31	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	33 Adventures	det
32	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Adventures	amod
33	Adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 remember	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 hers	case
35	hers	her	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 Adventures	nmod
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 reading	nsubj
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 reading	nsubj
38	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 reading	aux
39	just	just	ADV	_	41 reading	advmod
40	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 reading	aux
41	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 Adventures	acl:relcl
42	about	about	ADP	_	41 reading	obl
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 finished	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 finished	cc
45	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	48 finished	advmod
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 finished	nsubj
47	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 finished	aux
48	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 said	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 kissed	punct
50	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 sister	nmod:poss
51	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 kissed	nsubj
52	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 finished	parataxis
53	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 kissed	obj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 said	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 said	cc
56	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 was	punct
58	“	"	PUNCT	_	61 was	punct
59	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 was	nsubj
60	_	_	PUNCT	_	59 It	punct
61	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 dream	cop
62	_	_	PUNCT	_	61 was	punct
63	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	65 dream	det
64	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 dream	amod
65	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 said	ccomp
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 dear	punct
67	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 dream	amod
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 certainly	punct
69	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	67 dear	advmod
70	:	:	PUNCT	_	73 run	punct
71	but	but	CCONJ	_	73 run	cc
72	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	73 run	advmod
73	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
74	in	in	ADP	_	73 run	compound:prt
75	to	to	ADP	_	77 tea	case
76	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	77 tea	nmod:poss
77	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 run	obl
78	;	;	PUNCT	_	81 getting	punct
79	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	81 getting	nsubj
80	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	81 getting	aux
81	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	ccomp
82	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	81 getting	advmod
83	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
84	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	Alice	such curious dream					tree rules
2	have in a quote	past	Alice not said here						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: express	past	Alice						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	past	Alice		Alice's sister				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient
5	remember	could	Alice	leaves = leaf					tree rules
6	read	present · perfect · progressive	all strange Adventures of hers						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	finish	past · perfect	Alice						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
8	kiss	past	Alice's sister	Alice					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
9	say speech: assert	past	Alice not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
10	is a in a quote	past		a curious dream					tree rules
11	run in in a quote	present	Alice not said here			your tea	now		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tea=Destination
12	get in a quote	present · progressive	dream					late property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
13	adventure			hers					nom adventure «act transitive»: of=patient

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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