Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 113
“To begin with,” said the Cat, “a dog’s not mad.
Who acts: Cat, dog · What happens: begin, say, not be · 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, dog), 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 | _ | 3 begin | punct |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 begin | mark |
| 3 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 begin | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 begin | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 begin | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Cat | det |
| 9 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mad | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 mad | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dog | det |
| 13 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mad | nsubj |
| 14 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 mad | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 mad | advmod |
| 16 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin in a quote | to-infinitive | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present | a dog | mad property | tree rules |
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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