Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 81
“And who is Dinah, if I might venture to ask the question?” said the Lory.
Who acts: Dinah, Lory · What happens: be, venture, ask, say · To what, where: Dinah, question · 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 (Dinah, Lory), 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 | _ | 10 venture | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Dinah | cc |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 Dinah | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Dinah | cop |
| 5 | Dinah | Dinah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 venture | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 venture | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 venture | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 venture | nsubj |
| 9 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 venture | aux |
| 10 | venture | venture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 ask | mark |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 venture | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 question | det |
| 14 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ask | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 venture | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 venture | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Lory | det |
| 19 | Lory | Lory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Dinah | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | venture a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | might | Dinah | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | Dinah not said here | the question | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | the Lory | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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