Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 79

“I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!” said Alice aloud, addressing nobody in particular.

Who acts: Alice · What happens: wish, have, know, do, say, address · To what, where: Dinah, nobody, particular · 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 (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	_	3 wish	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wish	nsubj
3	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wish	ccomp
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 Dinah	nmod:poss
7	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 had	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wish	conj
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 know	ccomp
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
18	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	16 said	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 addressing	punct
20	addressing	address	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 said	advcl
21	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 addressing	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 particular	case
23	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 addressing	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	wish in a quote	present	Alice					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	have in a quote	past	Alice	our Dinah		here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinah=Patient
3	know in a quote	present	Alice					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	do in a quote	present	Alice					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: express	past	Alice				aloud property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	address	gerund	Alice not said here		nobody	particular		vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Destination

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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