Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 76
“Not like cats!” cried the Mouse, in a shrill, passionate voice.
Who acts: cats · What happens: cry · To what, where: Mouse, shrill passionate voice
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 (cats), 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 | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 cats | advmod |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 cats | case |
| 4 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 cats | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cats | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Mouse | det |
| 9 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 voice | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 voice | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 voice | det |
| 13 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 voice | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shrill | punct |
| 15 | passionate | passionate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 voice | amod |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | cats | the Mouse | a shrill passionate voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic |
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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