Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 70
“I didn’t mean it!” pleaded poor Alice.
Who acts: poor Alice · What happens: not mean, plead · To what, where: nonsense · 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 (poor Alice), 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 | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 mean | advmod |
| 5 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pleaded | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mean | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 9 | pleaded | plead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Alice | amod |
| 11 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 pleaded | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pleaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mean in a quote | past · do-support | poor Alice = alice | nonsense | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | plead speech: request | past | poor Alice | tree rules |
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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