Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 99
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.
Who acts: it, you, Cat · What happens: not matter, go, say · To what, where: way · 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 (it, you, Cat), 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 | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 matter | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 matter | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 matter | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 matter | advmod |
| 6 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 matter | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 go | nsubj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 way | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 matter | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Cat | det |
| 15 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not matter in a quote | present · do-support | it | which way | then | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | present | you | which way not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent 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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