Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 63
“Digging for apples, indeed!” said the Rabbit angrily.
Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: dig, say · 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 (Rabbit), 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 | _ | 2 Digging | punct |
| 2 | Digging | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 apples | case |
| 4 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Digging | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 indeed | punct |
| 6 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 2 Digging | advmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Digging | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Digging | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Rabbit | det |
| 11 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig in a quote | gerund | for apples; indeed property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for apple=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the Rabbit | angrily property | 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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