Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 46
“Of course,” the Dodo replied very gravely.
What happens: reply
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: 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Dodo | case |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Of | fixed |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Of | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Of | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Dodo | det |
| 7 | Dodo | Dodo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obl |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 gravely | advmod |
| 10 | gravely | gravely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 replied | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | of the Dodo; gravely property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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