Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 101
“A likely story indeed!” said the Pigeon in a tone of the deepest contempt.
Who acts: Pigeon · What happens: say, intonate · To what, where: tone, deepest contempt · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pigeon), 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 | _ | 4 story | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 3 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 story | advmod |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 story | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 story | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Pigeon | det |
| 10 | Pigeon | Pigeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 tone | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tone | det |
| 13 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 contempt | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 contempt | det |
| 16 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 contempt | amod |
| 17 | contempt | contempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tone | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Pigeon | a tone of the deepest contempt | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in tone=Manner | ||||
| 2 | intonate | the deepest contempt | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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