Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 82
Alice replied eagerly, for she was always ready to talk about her pet: “Dinah’s our cat.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: reply, be, talk
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 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 2 replied | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ready | punct |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 ready | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ready | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ready | cop |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 ready | advmod |
| 9 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 replied | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 talk | mark |
| 11 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ready | xcomp |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 pet | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 talk | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 cat | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 cat | punct |
| 17 | Dinah | Dinah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 cat | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Dinah | case |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 cat | nmod:poss |
| 20 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 replied | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Alice | eagerly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Alice | always, ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | talk | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | about Alice's pet | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about pet=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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