Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 12

Oh dear, what nonsense I’m talking!”

Who acts: I · What happens: nonsense, be, talk

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	2 dear	discourse
2	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nonsense	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 nonsense	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 nonsense	nsubj
5	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ’m	obj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 ’m	nsubj
7	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 ’m	xcomp
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 ’m	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 ’m	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	nonsense			tree rules
2	be	present	I	tree rules
3	talk	gerund	I not said here	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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