Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 61
And then a voice she had never heard before, “Sure then I’m here!
Who acts: Alice · What happens: not hear, be · To what, where: voice · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 heard | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 voice | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 voice | det |
| 4 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 heard | advmod |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | before | before | ADV | _ | 8 heard | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ’m | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 ’m | punct |
| 12 | Sure | sure | INTJ | _ | 15 ’m | discourse |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 ’m | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 ’m | nsubj |
| 15 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | parataxis |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 ’m | advmod |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | past · perfect · passive | a voice | before property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | Alice | here | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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