Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 27
“In that case,” said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, “I move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more energetic remedies—”
Who acts: Dodo, meeting · What happens: say, rise, move, adjourn, adopt · To what, where: case, feet, energetic remedies · 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 (Dodo, meeting), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 case | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 case | det |
| 4 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 case | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 case | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Dodo | det |
| 9 | Dodo | Dodo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | solemnly | solemnly | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rising | punct |
| 12 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 feet | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 feet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rising | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 move | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 move | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 move | nsubj |
| 19 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 adjourn | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 meeting | det |
| 22 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 adjourn | nsubj |
| 23 | adjourn | adjourn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 move | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 adoption | punct |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 adoption | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 adoption | det |
| 27 | immediate | immediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 adoption | amod |
| 28 | adoption | adoption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 adjourn | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 remedies | case |
| 30 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 31 energetic | advmod |
| 31 | energetic | energetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 remedies | amod |
| 32 | remedies | remedy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 adoption | nmod |
| 33 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Dodo | that case | solemnly property | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in case=Manner | |||
| 2 | rise | gerund | the Dodo not said here | Dodo's feet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | move in a quote | present | the Dodo = dodo | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | adjourn in a quote | infinitive | the meeting | for the immediate adoption of energetic remedies | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | adopt in a quote | energetic remedies | nom adoption «act transitive»: of=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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