Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 129
“I thought it would,” said the Cat, and vanished again.
Who acts: Cat · What happens: think, say, vanish · 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg11:434): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 would | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Cat | det |
| 10 | Cat | Cat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 vanished | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 vanished | cc |
| 13 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 vanished | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | past | the Cat = cat | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | vanish | past | the Cat not said here | again | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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