Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 55
“Mine is a long and a sad tale!” said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing.
Who acts: Mouse · What happens: be, say, turn, sigh · To what, where: Alice · 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 (Mouse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg11:173): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
| 2 | Mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 long | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 long | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 long | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tale | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tale | det |
| 8 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tale | amod |
| 9 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 long | conj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Mouse | det |
| 14 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turning | punct |
| 16 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Alice | case |
| 18 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 turning | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sighing | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sighing | cc |
| 21 | sighing | sigh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 turning | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the Mouse = mouse | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the Mouse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | the Mouse not said here | Alice | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to alice=Result | ||||
| 4 | sigh | gerund | the Mouse not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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