Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 100
“I wasn’t asleep,” he said in a hoarse, feeble voice: “I heard every word you fellows were saying.”
Who acts: English, you · What happens: not be, say, hear · To what, where: hoarse feeble voice, word · 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 (English, you), 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 asleep | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 asleep | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 asleep | cop |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 asleep | advmod |
| 5 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 asleep | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 asleep | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 12 | hoarse | hoarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 voice | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hoarse | punct |
| 14 | feeble | feeble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 voice | amod |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 heard | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 heard | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 heard | nsubj |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 word | det |
| 21 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heard | obj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 saying | nsubj |
| 23 | fellows | fellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 saying | aux |
| 25 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 word | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 heard | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | past | English | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | English | a hoarse feeble voice | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner | ||||
| 3 | hear in a quote | past | English | every word | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past · progressive | you | every word not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=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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