Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 26

“As wet as ever,” said Alice in a melancholy tone: “it doesn’t seem to dry me at all.”

Who acts: Alice, it · What happens: say, not seem, dry · To what, where: melancholy tone, Alice, all · 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 (Alice, it), 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	_	3 wet	punct
2	As	as	ADV	_	3 wet	advmod
3	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 ever	case
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 wet	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wet	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 wet	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	in	in	ADP	_	13 tone	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tone	det
12	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tone	compound
13	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 seem	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 seem	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seem	nsubj
17	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 seem	aux
18	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 seem	advmod
19	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 dry	mark
21	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 seem	xcomp
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 dry	obj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 all	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 dry	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 seem	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Alice		a melancholy tone	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not seem in a quote	present · do-support	it			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	dry in a quote	to-infinitive		Alice	all	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result

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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