Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 74
“Oh, I beg your pardon!” cried Alice hastily, afraid that she had hurt the poor animal’s feelings.
Who acts: Alice, your · What happens: beg, cry, hurt, pardon · To what, where: pardon, feelings · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Alice, your), 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 | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 beg | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 beg | nsubj |
| 5 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | advcl |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pardon | nmod:poss |
| 7 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beg | obj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 beg | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beg | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 12 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 10 cried | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 afraid | punct |
| 14 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cried | advcl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 hurt | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hurt | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 hurt | aux |
| 18 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 afraid | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 animal | det |
| 20 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 animal | amod |
| 21 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 feelings | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 animal | case |
| 23 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hurt | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request in a quote | present | Alice | your pardon | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Alice | hastily property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hurt | past · perfect | Alice | the poor animal's feelings | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feeling=Patient | ||||
| 4 | pardon in a quote | your | nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=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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