Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 23
“How am I to get in?” asked Alice again, in a louder tone.
Who acts: I · What happens: get in, ask · To what, where: Alice, louder tone · 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 get | advmod |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 get | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | iobj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 asked | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tone | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 tone | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tone | det |
| 16 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 tone | amod |
| 17 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in not said to happen, in a quote | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Alice | a louder tone | again | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent alice=Recipient 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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