Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 20
“Found _it_,” the Mouse replied rather crossly: “of course you know what ‘it’ means.”
Who acts: Mouse, you, archbishop · What happens: find, reply, know, mean · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mouse, you, archbishop), 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 | _ | 2 Found | punct |
| 2 | Found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | _ | _ | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Found | obl |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Found | punct |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Found | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Found | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Mouse | det |
| 9 | Mouse | Mouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 12 crossly | advmod |
| 12 | crossly | crossly | ADV | _ | 10 replied | advmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 18 know | advmod |
| 16 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 of | fixed |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 know | nsubj |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 replied | parataxis |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 means | obj |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 it | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 means | nsubj |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 it | punct |
| 23 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 know | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | participle | _ archbishop | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Mouse | crossly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | mean in a quote | present | archbishop | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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