Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 102
“Yes, please do!” pleaded Alice.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: do, plead · 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 (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 | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 do | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 5 do | discourse |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pleaded | ccomp |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 8 | pleaded | plead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 pleaded | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pleaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | plead speech: request | past | Alice | tree rules |
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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