Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 53

Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in her life before, and she felt that she was losing her temper.

Who acts: Alice · What happens: say, not contradict, feel, lose, temper · To what, where: nothing, Alice, life, temper · 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), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 said	obj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 contradicted	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 contradicted	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 contradicted	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 contradicted	advmod
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 contradicted	aux:pass
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADV	_	11 contradicted	advmod
11	contradicted	contradict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 life	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 life	nmod:poss
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 contradicted	obl
15	before	before	ADV	_	11 contradicted	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 felt	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 felt	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 felt	nsubj
19	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 losing	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 losing	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 losing	aux
23	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 felt	advcl
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 temper	nmod:poss
25	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 losing	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Alice	nothing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	not contradict	past · perfect · passive		Alice	Alice's life	before property	tree rules
3	feel	past	Alice				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	lose	past · progressive	Alice	Alice's temper			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality
5	temper		Alice				nom temper «feeling transitive»: 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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