Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 86
“I won’t indeed!” said Alice, in a great hurry to change the subject of conversation.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: say, change · To what, where: great hurry, subject · 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), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wo | nsubj |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 wo | advmod |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 wo | advmod |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 wo | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wo | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hurry | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hurry | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hurry | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hurry | amod |
| 14 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 change | mark |
| 16 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hurry | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 subject | det |
| 18 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 change | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 conversation | case |
| 20 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 subject | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Alice | a great hurry | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in hurry=Manner | ||||
| 2 | change | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | the subject of conversation | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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