Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 26
“Is that all?” said Alice, swallowing down her anger as well as she could.
Who acts: all, Alice · What happens: say, swallow down, anger · To what, where: anger · 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 (all, 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 all | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 all | mark |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 swallowing | punct |
| 10 | swallowing | swallow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 anger | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 anger | nmod:poss |
| 13 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swallowing | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 18 could | cc |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 as | fixed |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 could | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 could | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 swallowing | aux |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | all | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | swallow down | could | all not said here | Alice's anger | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anger=Patient | ||||
| 3 | anger | Alice | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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