Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 55

“Which would _not_ be an advantage,” said Alice, who felt very glad to get an opportunity of showing off a little of her knowledge.

Who acts: Alice, opportunity · What happens: not _, be, say, feel, get, show off · To what, where: advantage, opportunity, little · 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 (Alice, opportunity), 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 _	punct
2	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 _	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 _	aux
4	_	_	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 _	advmod
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 advantage	punct
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 advantage	cop
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 advantage	det
9	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 _	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 _	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 _	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 felt	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 felt	nsubj
16	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Alice	acl:relcl
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 glad	advmod
18	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 felt	xcomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 get	mark
20	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 glad	advcl
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 opportunity	det
22	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 get	obj
23	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 showing	mark
24	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 opportunity	acl
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 showing	compound:prt
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 little	det
27	little	little	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 showing	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 knowledge	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 knowledge	nmod:poss
30	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 little	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not _ in a quote	would				tree rules
2	is a in a quote	infinitive		a advantage		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Alice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	feel	past	Alice		glad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	get	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	a opportunity		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer opportunity=Stimulus
6	show off	gerund	a opportunity not said here	a little of Alice's knowledge		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent little=Recipient

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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