Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 68
“I shall do nothing of the sort,” said the Mouse, getting up and walking away.
Who acts: Mouse · What happens: do, say, get up, walk away · To what, where: nothing · 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.
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 | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sort | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sort | det |
| 8 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nothing | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Mouse | det |
| 13 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 getting | punct |
| 15 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 getting | compound:prt |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 walking | cc |
| 18 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 getting | conj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 walking | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | shall | the Mouse = mouse | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Mouse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get up | gerund | the Mouse not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | walk away | gerund | the Mouse not said here | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «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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