Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 102
Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another question.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: feel, not deny, try · To what, where: this, question
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper. 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 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 denied | mark |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 denied | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 denied | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 denied | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 denied | aux:pass |
| 8 | denied | deny | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 felt | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tried | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 tried | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tried | nsubj |
| 12 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 question | det |
| 14 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tried | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Alice | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not deny | could · passive | this | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | try | past | Alice | another question | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality |
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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