Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 91

He says it kills all the rats and—oh dear!” cried Alice in a sorrowful tone, “I’m afraid I’ve offended it again!”

Who acts: half, terrier, Alice, I · What happens: say, kill, cry, be, have, offend · To what, where: rats, sorrowful tone, terrier · 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 (half, terrier, Alice, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kills	nsubj
4	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 rats	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rats	det
7	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kills	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 kills	cc
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 dear	punct
10	oh	oh	INTJ	_	11 dear	discourse
11	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cried	parataxis
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 dear	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 dear	punct
14	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	conj
15	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 cried	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 tone	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 tone	det
18	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tone	amod
19	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cried	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ’m	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 ’m	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 ’m	nsubj
23	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 cried	conj
24	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ’m	xcomp
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 ’ve	nsubj
26	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 afraid	ccomp
27	offended	offend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cried	parataxis
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 offended	obj
29	again	again	ADV	_	27 offended	advmod
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	half					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	kill	present	terrier	all rats				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme
3	cry speech: express in a quote	past	Alice		a sorrowful tone			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	be	present	I				afraid property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	present	I					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	offend	past		terrier		again		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

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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