Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 131

“I’ve seen hatters before,” she said to herself; “the March Hare will be much the most interesting, and perhaps as this is May it won’t be raving mad—at least not so mad as it was in March.”

Who acts: Hatter, March Hare, this, Hare · What happens: see, say, be, not rave · To what, where: hatters, Hatter, May · 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 (Hatter, March Hare, this, 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	_	4 seen	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 seen	nsubj
3	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
5	hatters	hatter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 seen	obj
6	before	before	ADV	_	4 seen	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 herself	case
12	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 said	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 interesting	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 interesting	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Hare	det
16	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Hare	compound
17	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 interesting	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 interesting	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 interesting	cop
20	much	much	ADV	_	23 interesting	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 interesting	det
22	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	23 interesting	advmod
23	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 raving	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 raving	cc
26	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	35 raving	advmod
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 May	mark
28	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 May	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 May	cop
30	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 raving	advcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 raving	nsubj
32	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 raving	aux
33	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 raving	advmod
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 raving	aux
35	raving	rave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
36	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 raving	xcomp
37	—	-	PUNCT	_	42 mad	punct
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 least	case
39	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	42 mad	obl
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 mad	advmod
41	so	so	ADV	_	42 mad	advmod
42	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	parataxis
43	as	as	ADP	_	47 March	case
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 March	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 March	cop
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 March	case
47	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 mad	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	42 mad	punct
49	”	"	PUNCT	_	42 mad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	present · perfect	Hatter	hatters		before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hatter=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Hatter		Hatter		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	future	the March Hare			interesting property	tree rules
4	is a in a quote	present	this	May			tree rules
5	not rave speech: other in a quote	future · progressive	Hare			mad, perhaps property	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	past	Hare			as March	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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