Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 27
“It’s really dreadful,” she muttered to herself, “the way all the creatures argue.
Who acts: door, dreadful, creatures · What happens: be, mutter, argue · To what, where: way, 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 (door, dreadful, creatures), 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 | _ | 5 dreadful | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dreadful | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dreadful | cop |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 dreadful | advmod |
| 5 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 muttered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dreadful | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dreadful | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 muttered | nsubj |
| 9 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 herself | case |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 muttered | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 way | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 way | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 muttered | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 creatures | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 creatures | det |
| 18 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 argue | nsubj |
| 19 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 way | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 muttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | door | dreadful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mutter speech: assert | past | dreadful | the way | Alice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | |||
| 3 | argue speech: disagree in a quote | present | all creatures | the way not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent way=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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