Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 47
“Not _quite_ right, I’m afraid,” said Alice, timidly; “some of the words have got altered.”
Who acts: Alice, some · What happens: not be, say, get, alter · 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 (Alice, some), 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 | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 ’m | advmod |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Not | punct |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 ’m | advmod |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 quite | punct |
| 6 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 9 ’m | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ’m | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 ’m | nsubj |
| 9 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 10 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ’m | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ’m | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 ’m | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 timidly | punct |
| 16 | timidly | timidly | ADV | _ | 13 said | advmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 got | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 words | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 words | det |
| 22 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 some | nmod |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 got | aux |
| 24 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 25 | altered | alter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 got | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be in a quote | present | Alice | afraid property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Alice | timidly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | present · perfect | some | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | alter in a quote | participle | some not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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