Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 90
“I wish I hadn’t mentioned Dinah!” she said to herself in a melancholy tone.
Who acts: Dinah · What happens: wish, not mention, say · To what, where: Dinah, melancholy tone · 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), 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 | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 mentioned | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mentioned | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 mentioned | advmod |
| 7 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 wish | ccomp |
| 8 | Dinah | Dinah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mentioned | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 herself | case |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 tone | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tone | det |
| 17 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tone | compound |
| 18 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | Dinah | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not mention speech: other in a quote | past · perfect | Dinah | Dinah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dinah=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | Dinah | Dinah | a melancholy tone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient 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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