Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 119
“_I_ call it purring, not growling,” said Alice.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: purr, not growl, say · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 purring | punct |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 call | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 call | nsubj |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 call | punct |
| 5 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 purring | aux |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 call | obj |
| 7 | purring | purr | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 growling | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 growling | advmod |
| 10 | growling | growl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 purring | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 purring | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 purring | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purr in a quote | present | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not growl in a quote | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | 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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