Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 10
“Then it wasn’t very civil of you to offer it,” said Alice angrily.
Who acts: wine, Alice · What happens: not be, offer, say · To what, where: wine · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wine, Alice), 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 | _ | 7 civil | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 civil | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 civil | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 civil | cop |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 civil | advmod |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 civil | advmod |
| 7 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 civil | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 offer | mark |
| 11 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 civil | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 offer | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 civil | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 civil | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 15 said | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | past | wine | then | of you; civil property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | offer in a quote | to-infinitive | wine not said here | wine | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Alice | angrily property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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