Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 91

Why, I haven’t had a wink of sleep these three weeks!”

Who acts: I · What happens: not have · To what, where: wink

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 (I), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 had	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 had	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 had	advmod
6	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wink	det
8	wink	wink	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 sleep	case
10	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wink	nmod
11	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 weeks	det
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 weeks	nummod
13	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obl:unmarked
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	present · perfect	I	a wink of sleep			week		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wink=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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