Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 45
“Oh, you foolish Alice!” she answered herself.
Who acts: foolish Alice · What happens: answer · To what, where: Alice
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foolish 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 | _ | 6 Alice | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 foolish | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 foolish | nsubj |
| 5 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Alice | amod |
| 6 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Alice | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Alice | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 answered | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | foolish Alice | Alice | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent herself=Eventuality |
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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