Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 65
_” cried the Mouse, sharply and very angrily.
What happens: cry · To what, where: Mouse
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 | _ | 3 cried | punct |
| 2 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Mouse | det |
| 5 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sharply | punct |
| 7 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 3 cried | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 angrily | cc |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 angrily | advmod |
| 10 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 7 sharply | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | the Mouse | sharply property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=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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