Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 86
“I haven’t the least idea what you’re talking about,” said Alice.
Who acts: Alice, you · What happens: not have, be, talk about, say · To what, where: least idea · 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, you), 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 | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 have | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 idea | det |
| 6 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 idea | amod |
| 7 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 ’re | obj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 ’re | nsubj |
| 10 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 idea | acl:relcl |
| 11 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 ’re | xcomp |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 talking | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have in a quote | present | Alice | the least idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 2 | does in a quote | present | you | the least idea | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | talk about in a quote | gerund | you not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Alice | 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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