Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 49
“Hand it over here,” said the Dodo.
Who acts: Dodo · What happens: hand over, say · To what, where: idea · 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), 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 | _ | 2 Hand | punct |
| 2 | Hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Hand | obj |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 2 Hand | compound:prt |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Hand | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hand | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hand | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Dodo | det |
| 10 | Dodo | Dodo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand over in a quote | infinitive | idea | here | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Dodo | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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