Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 32

“What _is_ a Caucus-race?” said Alice; not that she wanted much to know, but the Dodo had paused as if it thought that _somebody_ ought to speak, and no one else seemed inclined to say anything.

Who acts: _, Alice, Dodo, somebody, one · What happens: be, say, not want, know, pause, think · To what, where: much, anything · 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, Dodo, somebody), 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	_	12 said	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 said	nsubj:outer
3	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 What	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 What	cop
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 race	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 race	det
7	Caucus	Caucus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 race	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Caucus	punct
9	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 What	appos
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 race	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 wanted	punct
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 wanted	advmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 wanted	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wanted	nsubj
18	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	parataxis
19	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wanted	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 know	mark
21	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 much	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 paused	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 paused	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Dodo	det
25	Dodo	Dodo	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 paused	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 paused	aux
27	paused	pause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 wanted	conj
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 thought	mark
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 thought	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 thought	nsubj
31	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 paused	advcl
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 speak	mark
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	34 somebody	punct
34	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	38 speak	nsubj
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	34 somebody	punct
36	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 speak	aux
37	to	to	PART	_	38 speak	mark
38	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 thought	ccomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 seemed	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 seemed	cc
41	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	42 one	det
42	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 seemed	nsubj
43	else	else	ADV	_	42 one	advmod
44	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
45	inclined	inclined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 seemed	xcomp
46	to	to	PART	_	47 say	mark
47	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 inclined	xcomp
48	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	47 say	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	_			tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not want	past	Alice	much		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot much=Theme
4	know	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	pause	past · perfect	the Dodo			vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
6	think speech: other	past	_			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	speak speech: other	ought	somebody			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	seem	past	no one		inclined property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
9	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	no one not said here	anything		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=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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