Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 23
The Mouse did not notice this question, but hurriedly went on, “‘—found it advisable to go with Edgar Atheling to meet William and offer him the crown.
Who acts: Mouse · What happens: not notice, go on, find, go, meet, offer · To what, where: question, William, crown, Mouse · 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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Mouse | det |
| 2 | Mouse | Mouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 notice | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 notice | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 notice | advmod |
| 5 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 question | det |
| 7 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 notice | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 10 | hurriedly | hurriedly | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 notice | parataxis |
| 12 | on | on | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ‘ | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 ‘ | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 notice | obl |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 notice | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 found | obj |
| 19 | advisable | advisable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 found | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 found | ccomp |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 Atheling | case |
| 23 | Edgar | Edgar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Atheling | compound |
| 24 | Atheling | atheling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 meet | mark |
| 26 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 go | advcl |
| 27 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 meet | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 offer | cc |
| 29 | offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 go | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 offer | obj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 crown | det |
| 32 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 offer | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 notice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not notice | past · do-support | the Mouse | this question | ‘ obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go on | past | hurriedly property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find in a quote | past | question | advisable property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | with Edgar Atheling | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with atheling=Beneficiary | |||||
| 5 | meet in a quote | to-infinitive | William | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent william=Co-Agent | |||||
| 6 | offer in a quote | infinitive | the crown | Mouse | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal crown=Theme |
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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