Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 21

(Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to say.)

Who acts: Alice, Latitude · What happens: have, be, think, say · To what, where: idea, Longitude, nice grand words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, Latitude), 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 had	punct
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 idea	det
5	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 had	obj
7	Latitude	Latitude	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Longitude	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 Longitude	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Longitude	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 Longitude	cc
11	Longitude	longitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 what	nsubj
12	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 Longitude	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 thought	cc
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 words	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 words	cop
18	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 words	amod
19	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 words	amod
20	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 thought	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 say	mark
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 words	acl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 words	punct
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Alice	no idea		tree rules
2	is a	past	Latitude	Longitude	either property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	Alice not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	Latitude	nice grand words		tree rules
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Alice not said here			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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