Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 104

“In _that_ direction,” the Cat said, waving its right paw round, “lives a Hatter: and in _that_ direction,” waving the other paw, “lives a March Hare.

Who acts: Cat, that, direction, March Hare · What happens: say, wave, live, direction · To what, where: right paw, Hatter, other paw · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Cat, that, direction, March Hare), 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	_	6 direction	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	3 _	case
3	_	_	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 direction	obl
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 _	nsubj
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 _	punct
6	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 direction	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 direction	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Cat	det
10	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 waving	punct
13	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 paw	nmod:poss
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 paw	amod
16	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waving	obj
17	round	round	ADV	_	13 waving	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lives	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 lives	punct
20	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 waving	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 Hatter	det
22	Hatter	hatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lives	obj
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 _	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 _	cc
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 _	case
26	_	_	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	parataxis
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 direction	nsubj
28	_	_	PUNCT	_	29 direction	punct
29	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 _	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 direction	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 direction	punct
32	waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 direction	acl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 paw	det
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 paw	amod
35	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 waving	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 lives	punct
37	“	"	PUNCT	_	38 lives	punct
38	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 direction	parataxis
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 Hare	det
40	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Hare	compound
41	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 lives	nsubj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Cat			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wave	gerund	the Cat not said here	_'s right paw	round property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Patient
3	live in a quote	present	the Cat not said here	a Hatter		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hatter=Location
4	direction in a quote		that			tree rules
5	wave	gerund	direction not said here	the other paw		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Patient
6	live in a quote	present	a March Hare			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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