Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 137

I’ve often seen a cat without a grin,” thought Alice; “but a grin without a cat!

Who acts: I · What happens: see, think · To what, where: cat, Alice · 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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 seen	nsubj
2	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 seen	advmod
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seen	obj
7	without	without	ADP	_	9 grin	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 grin	det
9	grin	grin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seen	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	parataxis
13	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 thought	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 grin	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 grin	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 grin	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 grin	det
18	grin	grin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thought	ccomp
19	without	without	ADP	_	21 cat	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cat	det
21	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grin	nmod
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present · perfect	I	a cat				without a grin; often property	tree rules
2	think speech: other in a quote	past		Alice					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot alice=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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